A San Francisco Bay Area Progressive Directory Saturday 19 May 2018
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Name: 1000 Mothers to Prevent Violence
Address: POBox 781
Hayward CA 94543
Voice: (510) 583-0100
Text: Eases the detrimental & traumatic impact of violence on homicide &
violent crime victim-survivors. Family-focused continuum of care
provides mental health & grief support, groceries, home decor,
outreach, networking & advocacy.
To date, the organization has served more than 500 families throughout
the greater S.F. bay area(Oakland, Antioch, Fremont, San Francisco,
Sacramento, Stockton, Richmond, Berkeley, Hayward) and beyond.&With
the help of seven volunteers, 1K MPV serves approximately 50
victim-survivor families each month dealing with grief-related
illnesses by way of legal referral services, peer and grief support
groups, delivering groceries, networking & and advocacy.
Email: mothers1000@aol.com
Web: http://1000mothers.org/
Keys: family; guns; services; support groups; violence
[Contact data last verified 07 Jan 2017]
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Name: 100Reporters
Text: A news organization dedicated to forging new frontiers in responsible
journalism. It joins scores of the planet’s finest professional
reporters with whistle-blowers and citizen journalists across the
globe to report on corruption in all its forms. The organization,
spearheaded by veteran correspondents of top-tier news outlets, aims
to raise the caliber, impact and visibility of citizen-driven
investigative journalism, as a means of promoting transparency and
good government.
Web: http://100r.org
Keys: developing world; development; investigative journalism; news on-line
[Contact data last verified 15 Jul 2017]
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Name: 2-1-1
Voice: 211
Text: 211 is an easy to remember, toll-free phone number that connect
callers with local community services, such as food, shelter,
counseling, employment assistance, quality child care and more.
During a disaster, 211 provides critical information about evacuation
routes, food and shelter, as well as job search and permanent housing
support during long-term recovery.
211 is confidential and available 24 hours a day in more than 150
languages.
Web: http://www.211BayArea.org
Keys: directories; healthcare access; immigrants; services; support groups
[Contact data last verified 16 Jan 2016]
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Name: 350BayArea.org
Text: Building a grassroots climate movement, working for deep CO2 emission
reductions in the San Francisco Bay Area & beyond.
Web: http://www.350bayarea.org
Keys: climate change
[Contact data last verified 09 Oct 2016]
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Name: 48 Hills
Text: A new kind of newspaper – the progressive daily that San Francisco has
always needed. Not a blog, not a content aggregator, but a place where
you can read original work by reporters and critics who know the city.
Breaking news, analysis, investigative reporting, cutting-edge arts
and culture … that’s 48 Hills.
We are a nonprofit venture, under the auspices of the San Francisco
Progressive Media Center, formed by former Bay Guardian editors with a
community-based board and a mission to serve a city battered by
evictions, displacement, and economic inequality. We are unafraid of
controversy, proud of our politics, owned by no investors, driven not
by profit but by a passion for journalism that matters.
Web: http://48hills.org/
Keys: analysis; investigative journalism; news on-line; newspapers; tenant
rights
[Contact data last verified 23 Jan 2017]
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Name: 51Oakland
Address: 328 63rd Street
Oakland CA 94618
Text: A non-profit that is committed to building opportunity for ALL of
Oakland’s youth to have access to culturally vibrant art and music
programming across all schools in the district.
By working closely with Oakland public school educators and
administrators, parents, and involved community members, 51Oakland
strives to provide students access to mentoring, nurturing,
instruction and training by dedicated professional artists and
musicians, thereby filling the gaps in Arts & Music opportunities
caused by spending cuts, and re-engaging the full potential of Oakland
youth.
Web: https://51oakland.org/
Keys: art; mentoring; music; public education; students
[Contact data last verified 16 Jun 2017]
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Name: A1 Sun, Inc.
Address: 1435 4th Street
Berkeley CA 94710
Voice: (510) 526-5715
Text: Installs solar systems of the highest quality. We are committed to
providing the best value for our clients, while benefitting the planet
by doing business sustainably. Our office is solar powered and charges
our expanding electric vehicle fleet. We precycle, recycle, and use
environmentally-friendly materials. We are proud of our environmental
commitment and socially conscious business practices.
Email: info@a1suninc.com
Web: http://www.a1suninc.com
Keys: appropriate technology; building materials; products; solar energy;
technology
[Contact data last verified 09 Jan 2015]
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Name: ABADà¤£-Capoeira San Francisco Brazilian Arts Center (ACSF)
Address: 3221 22nd Street (at Mission)
San Francisco CA 94110
Voice: (415) 206-0650
Text: ACSF works to preserve, develop, and share the art of capoeira with
integrity and to use capoeira to build a healthy, just, and vibrant
society in which people feel connected to and responsible for their
community. By exploring creative ways of sharing capoeira and related
arts, ACSF remains a pioneering force in the preservation and
development of Brazilian arts.
Email: info@abada.org
Web: http://www.abada.org/
Keys: Brazil; classes / courses; dance; music; sports; youth
[Contact data last verified 09 Apr 2016]
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Name: Abilities United
Address: 525 East Charleston Road
Palo Alto CA 94306
Voice: (650) 494-0550
Fax: (650) 855-9710
Text: Supports children and adults with disabilities, their families and the
community, and champions a culture in which all members of society are
included and appreciated for their distinctive contributions.
Abilities United provides a lifetime of services to individuals with
developmental and physical disabilities. During our 50 year history,
we have served over 65,000 people in San Mateo and Santa Clara
counties.
Email: info@abilitiesunited.org
Web: http://www.AbilitiesUnited.org
Keys: disabilities; San Mateo County; Santa Clara County; self-reliance;
services; therapy
[Contact data last verified 05 Apr 2015]
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Name: ABODE Services
Address: 40849 Fremont Blvd
Fremont CA 94538
Voice: (510) 657-7409
Fax: (510) 657-7293
Text: Mission is to end homelessness by assisting low-income, un-housed
people, including those with special needs, to secure stable,
supportive housing; and to be advocates for the removal of the causes
of homelessness.
We develop and implement innovative programs to end homelessness. Our
agency is built on the principles of Housing First, a proven approach
that has demonstrated results far superior to the traditional
approaches to homelessness.
Email: info@abodeservices.org
Web: http://www.abodeservices.org
Keys: Alameda County (below Oakland); homelessness; housing; low-income;
mental health; Santa Clara County; Santa Cruz County; services;
shelters
[Contact data last verified 09 Oct 2016]
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Name: Abolition 2000
Text: An international global network of organisations and individuals
working for a global treaty to prohibit and eliminate nuclear weapons.
Abolition 2000 is open to all organisations endorsing the Abolition
2000 Founding Statement. The Network provides a forum for the exchange
of information and development of joint initiatives and campaigns. We
meet once a year and communicate on an ongoing basis via a number of
list servers an through conferences, teleconferencing, and period
mailings.
Web: http://www.abolition2000.org
Keys: coalitions; global issues; international law; networking; nuclear
weapons / testing
[Contact data last verified 08 Apr 2017]
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Name: Abortion Clinics OnLine (ACOL)
Text: 1st and LARGEST online directory for abortion clinics comprised of
over 200 STATE LICENSED abortion clinics and abortion providers,
including Planned Parenthood. Some of the abortion clinics on this
directory offer private medical abortion (“Abortion Pill“), early and
late abortion care, and standard and necessary women’s gynecological
(“GYN”) services.
Web: http://www.gynpages.com
Keys: abortion rights; directories; health; healthcare access; hospitals;
reproductive rights; services
[Contact data last verified 06 Jan 2018]
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Name: About-Face
Address: POBox 191145
San Francisco CA 94119
Voice: (415) 448-6263
Text: About-Face’s vision is for women and girls to lead full lives,
unconstrained by a preoccupation with appearance and body image, and
for media representations of women and girls to be gender-balanced or
gender-neutral.
To move toward our vision, About-Face improves girls’ and women’
self-esteem and body image through equipping them with tools to
understand and resist harmful media messages. That is, we teach media
literacy and a host of other life skills, as well as the skills to
take action to make social change.
Web: http://www.about-face.org
Keys: eating disorders; humor; imagism; media criticism; psychology;
research; women
[Contact data last verified 24 Mar 2018]
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Name: ACCESS
Address: POBox 3609
Oakland CA 94609
Voice: (510) 923-0739
Fax: (510) 923-0014
Text: ACCESS Fights Barriers and Builds the Power of Women to Achieve
Reproductive Justice.
Most people believe that reproductive health care is easy to get in
California, because our reproductive rights are stronger than in many
other states. Yet despite our legal rights millions of women in
California still suffer consistent and persistent health care
inequities and injustice, and continue to lack the resources and
support to make the sexual and reproductive choices that are best for
them, their families and communities.
Email: info@accesswhj.org
Web: http://www.whrc-access.org/
Keys: healthcare access; reproductive rights; women
[Contact data last verified 05 Apr 2015]
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Name: Access Institute for Psychological Services
Address: 110 Gough Street, Suite 301 (at Page)
San Francisco CA 94102
Voice: (415) 861-5449
Fax: (415) 8961-3252
Text: We offer low and no-fee psychological services to those who want and
need psychological support, but aren’t able to access it for any
number of reasons including: income, cultural barriers, stigma around
mental health, and lack of mobility. Our dual mission: (1) Serve the
people in our community who too often fall through the cracks. Help
them develop healthier behaviors and relationships so they may thrive.
(2) Provide clinical internship training to the next generation of
therapists who believe that everyone matters and deserves high-quality
care.
Email: info@accessinst.org
Web: http://www.accessinst.org
Keys: mental health; psychology; psychotherapy; services; therapy
[Contact data last verified 09 Jan 2015]
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Name: ACCION International
Text: A global nonprofit dedicated to building a financially inclusive world
with economic opportunity for all, by giving people the financial
tools they need to improve their lives. We are building the next
generation of top-tier microfinance institutions, and over the last 50
years have helped create 64 such institutions in 32 countries on four
continents that today reach millions of clients. Our impact investing
initiatives are pushing beyond microfinance to catalyze more than 20
innovative start-ups dedicated to improving the efficiency, reach and
scope of financial services for the poor. And our Center for Financial
Inclusion is helping to build a stronger industry with high standards.
Web: http://www.accion.org
Keys: microenterprise; poverty
[Contact data last verified 11 Oct 2015]
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Name: Accion Latina
Address: 2958 24th Street (between Harrison and Alabama)
San Francisco CA 94110
Text: A nonprofit organization with a 40-year history enriching the lives of
Bay Area Latinos by engaging them in the arts and connecting them to
culturally relevant news, information and ideas. Since 1970, we have
produced El Tecolote, a free, bilingual print and online publication.
We also produce an annual Encuentro del Canto Popular Festival, the
Mission Latin Jazz Festival, the S.F. Son Jarocho Festival (with Brava
Theater), and other performing, literary and visual arts events.
Web: http://accionlatina.org
Keys: art; Caribbean; journalism; Latin America; Latinas / Latinos; music;
newspapers; youth
[Contact data last verified 05 Apr 2017]
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Name: Act for Love
Text: Thinking about trying an online dating site? Use ActForLove.org!
All ActForLove.org profits go towards supporting Left Action, a network of more
than 1 million progressive activists. So just by using this site,
you’re helping to support progressive causes.
Web: http://www.actforlove.org/
Keys: relationships
[Contact data last verified 06 Jan 2018]
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Name: Acta Non Verba: Youth Urban Farm Project (ANV)
Address: 1001 83rd Avenue Mailbox #1
Oakland CA 94621
Voice: (510) 878-7235
Text: Elevates life in the inner-city by challenging oppressive dynamics and
environments through urban farming. Founded and led mainly by women of
color from the surrounding neighborhood and larger community, ANV
creates a safe and creative outdoor space for children, youth, and
families in East Oakland, CA. Within this severely economically
depressed neighborhood in the nation’s second most dangerous city, ANV
engages and deepens their understanding of nutrition, food production,
and healthy living as well as strengthens their ties to the
community.
ANV’s quarter acre farm located in the City of Oakland’s Tassafaronga
Park is planned, planted, harvested and sold by youth in grades K-8.
One hundred percent of the proceeds are placed into individual savings
accounts for those who participate.
Email: Info@anvfarm.org
Web: http://anvfarm.org
Keys: agriculture; parks; urban life; youth
[Contact data last verified 24 Mar 2018]
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Name: Acterra: Action for a Sustainable Earth
Address: 3921 East Bayshore Road
Palo Alto CA 94303-4303
Voice: (650) 962-9876
Text: A 501(c)(3) nonprofit based in Palo Alto that brings people together
to create local solutions for a healthy planet. We focus on what you
can do locally to address current environmental problems. In the face
of daunting environmental challenges, our science-based approach
instills hope while building community.
Acterra's staff provides environmental education in the areas of
energy and climate change, corporate sustainability, and advocacy to
build an informed and empowered citizenry. Our programs include Energy
and Climate, Business Partnerships for Sustainability, a Public
Lecture Series, and an Environmental Library and Resource Center. Our
programs engage people and companies in the Bay Area, with a focus on
Santa Clara and San Mateo counties.
Web: http://www.Acterra.org
Keys: business; climate change; directories; ecology; energy; libraries;
Santa Clara County; science; sustainability
[Contact data last verified 08 Apr 2017]
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Name: Action For Nature (AFN)
Address: 2269 Chestnut Street #263
San Francisco CA 94123
Text: An international non-profit organization based in San Francisco,
California, that encourages young people to take personal action to
better their environments and to foster love and respect for nature.
Honors Eco-Heroes: 8-16 year olds who have completed a substantial
project to help sustain our planet. Eco-Heroes have gone onto work as
ambassadors for the UN, save cheetahs in Namibia, and work for Google
while creating partnerships between China and the United States.
Eco-Heroes are often creating connections between ecosystems and
humans, making the world a more livable, breathable, and healthier
place.
Email: mail@actionfornature.org
Web: http://www.actionfornature.org
Keys: ecology; youth
[Contact data last verified 09 Apr 2017]
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Name: Action Network, The
Text: A progressive online organizing platform. Anyone can become an
organizer by creating a free account.
With that account, organizers can publish actions to the public, such
as a petition to an elected official, an event RSVP form for a meeting
the organizer is holding, a survey form to collect answers from a
community, a fundraising form to collect money for an upcoming
campaign, a ticketed event page to sell tickets to an event, or a
letter campaign to have activists email elected officials.
As other activists take action and fill out the forms an organizer has
published, those activists are opted in to the organizer's email list.
Using our built-in mass mailing tool, organizers can contact that list
of activists whenever they want, and download the data on their list
too!
Web: https://actionnetwork.org/
Keys: calendars; direct action; letter-writing; networking; petitions;
publicity; software; technical assistance
[Contact data last verified 01 Feb 2017]
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Name: Active Voice Lab
Address: 145 Ninth Street, Suite 102
San Francisco CA 94103
Voice: (415) 487-2000
Fax: (415) 487-2260
Text: Builds tools that help people use stories, art, and culture to advance
social change. We leverage three decades of hands-on experience to
conduct research, test pilot projects, and consult with creative
leaders.
Email: info@activevoice.net
Web: http://www.activevoice.net/
Keys: art; classes / courses; film / video; Internet; media; research;
television
[Contact data last verified 09 Apr 2016]
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Name: Activist San Diego
Text: A social justice organization that promotes and facilitates the
development of an active, inter-related, progressive community in San
Diego through networking, culture and electronic technology.
Web: http://www.activistsandiego.org/
Keys: calendars; coalitions; directories; networking
[Contact data last verified 11 Oct 2015]
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Name: Adams ESQ (Oakland office)
Address: 1300 Clay Street, Suite 600
Oakland CA 94612
Voice: (510) 832-6000
Text: Over a decade ago, attorney Jean Murrell Adams opened the law firm of
ADAMS ESQ, a Professional Corporation, to provide high quality legal
service at no cost to qualifying parents of children with special
needs. Her own experience fighting for the rights of her exceptional
child prompted her to dedicate her career to helping other parents.
ADAMS ESQ focuses exclusively on special education law.
With locations in Los Angeles, Oakland, Riverside, Sacramento and Las
Vegas, our staff, paralegals, advocates and attorneys are committed to
helping children with disabilities obtain a free and appropriate
education throughout California and Nevada.
Email: oaklandadmin@adamsesq.com
Web: http://www.adamsesq.com
Keys: assistive technology; children; counseling; disabilities; lawyers;
low-income; mentoring; public education
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Name: ADAPT
Text: A national grass-roots community that organizes disability rights
activists to engage in nonviolent direct action, including civil
disobedience, to assure the civil and human rights of people with
disabilities to live in freedom.
Web: http://www.adapt.org/
Keys: autonomy; community-building; disabilities; nursing homes
[Contact data last verified 06 Apr 2018]
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Name: Adopt A Special Kid (AASK)
Address: 1330 Arnold Drive, Suite 241
Martinez CA 94553
Voice: (888) 680-7349
Text: AASK believes that every child has the right to a safe, stable, and
nurturing home and that all children are adoptable. AASK America
provides education and support services to adoptive and foster
families and children. We also promote positive changes to benefit
children who are in the child welfare system.
AASK inspires change in the lives of children in foster care by
promoting and sustaining permanent families. We identify and train
competent, caring foster care and adoptive parents, provide education
and support services, and nurture stable homes for foster kids. AASK
has promoted permanency for foster youth and placed thousands of
children with loving families since 1973.
Web: http://aask.org/
Keys: adoption & foster care; services
[Contact data last verified 09 Oct 2016]
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Name: Adult Survivors of Child Abuse Program (ASCA)
Address: The Morris Center
POBox 281535
San Francisco CA 94128
Text: An innovative and effective support program designed specifically for
adult survivors of physical, sexual, and/or emotional child abuse or
neglect. The program was designed to support and assist survivors of
child abuse, irrespective of their financial situation, in moving on
with their lives.
The two basic components of the ASCA program are individually reading
and working the Survivor to Thriver manual and participating in ASCA
meetings. Meetings are the backbone of the ASCA recovery program.
Email: info@ascasupport.org
Web: http://www.ascasupport.org
Keys: child abuse; psychology; self-help; support groups
[Contact data last verified 16 Jul 2016]
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Name: Afghan Women's Mission
Text: Founded in January 2000 by a small group of Americans to support the
humanitarian and political work of RAWA. Projects include many
programs run by Afghan women including Malalai Clinic, schools,
orphanages, agricultural programs, demonstrations and functions in
support of women’s and human rights. We are an all-volunteer
organization based in the United States.
Web: http://afghanwomensmission.org
Keys: Afghanistan; healthcare access; hospitals; Pakistan; refugees; women
[Contact data last verified 11 Oct 2015]
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Name: afghans for Afghans
Address: POBox 475843
San Francisco CA 94147-5843
Text: A humanitarian and educational people-to-people project that sends
hand-knit and crocheted blankets and sweaters, vests, hats, mittens,
and socks to the beleaguered people of Afghanistan.
This grassroots effort is inspired by Red Cross volunteers who made
afghans, socks, slippers, and other items for soldiers and refugees
during World Wars I and II and other times of crisis and need.
Web: http://www.afghansforafghans.org/
Keys: Afghanistan; crafts; humanitarian aid; material aid; refugees;
textiles
[Contact data last verified 09 Jan 2015]
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Name: African Advocacy Network (AAN)
Address: 938 Valencia Street
San Francisco CA 94110
Voice: (415) 503-1032
(415) 282-6209 x128
Fax: (415) 282-2826
Text: Serves the growing Diaspora with community-based services focusing in
Immigration Legal services, social services and psycho-social case
management, as well as promoting cultural integration through the
arts.
AAN couples these programs with experienced and trained linguistic
capacity in more than ten languages that span the African continent
such as Amharic, Tigrinya, and Arabic to French, Wolof, Berber,
Haitian Creole, and more.
AAN is a program of Dolores Street Community Services (DSCS).
Email: adoubou@dscs.org
Web: http://africanadvocacynetwork.org
Keys: Africa; art; Berbers; Caribbean; counseling; employment; Haiti;
housing; immigrants; legal services; refugees; services
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Name: African American Art and Culture Complex
Address: 762 Fulton Street (between Webster and Laguna)
San Francisco CA 94102
Voice: (415) 922-2049
Text: A community based, 501(c)3 arts and cultural organization. Our mission
is to empower our community through Afro-centric artistic and cultural
expression, mediums, education and programming.
We are dedicated to inspiring children and youth to serve as agents of
change, cultivating their leadership skills and fostering a commitment
to community service and activism. In addition, we encourage, support
and promote the work of young, aspiring Bay Area artists. We also
strive to develop partnerships with organizations that are similarly
committed to our mission, and offer our space to the community for
special events.
Email: info@aaacc.org
Web: http://www.aaacc.org/
Keys: African Americans; art; classes / courses; diversity; theatre
[Contact data last verified 05 Oct 2014]
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Name: Against the Grain
Text: A radio and web media project whose aim is to provide in-depth
analysis and commentary on a variety of matters -- political,
economic, social and cultural -- important to progressive and radical
thinking and activism. We're based at the studios of Pacifica station
KPFA-FM in Berkeley, California.
ATG focuses on meaty theoretical and action-oriented issues that the
mainstream media tends to ignore, matters like political economy, the
global justice movement, philosophical and cultural ideas, and race
and gender relations. We strive to bring these perspectives to the
airwaves in a way that's accessible, engaging, and, most of all,
useful to people working for social change.
Web: http://www.againstthegrain.org
Keys: analysis; economics; radio; socioeconomic models
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Name: Agrarian Trust
Text: Mission is to support land access for next generation farmers.
In the next two decades, 400 million acres of U.S. farmland will change hands,
and the question of what will happen to that land when it reaches the
market is crucial to the future of our food system.
Just in time for this pivotal land transition is a new generation of
young farmers, eager to become stewards of our land and healthfully
provide for their communities. However, these farmers face ever
greater odds in accessing affordable and secure land tenure; the price
of land in the US has skyrocketed in the past decade, and one acre of
farmland is lost to development every minute.
Web: http://agrariantrust.org
Keys: agriculture; land use
[Contact data last verified 06 Jan 2018]
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Name: Agroecology in the Brazilian Landless Movement
Text: This film examines a cooperative of the Brazilian Landless Movement
(MST) in the South of Brazil, which struggled for access to land and
then transitioned to ecological agriculture, or agroecology. This MST
cooperative is demonstrating the possibility of an alternative model
of flourishing rural life, which provides thriving livelihoods for
farmers, produces high quality and low cost food for the region, and
rehabilitates the earth.
Web: http://www.soilstruggleandjustice.org
Keys: agroecology; Brazil; cooperatives; film / video; food security;
organic agriculture; rural life
[Contact data last verified 23 Nov 2014]
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Name: Agua Para la Vida (APLV)
Address: 2311 Webster Street (near Telegraph and Ashby)
Berkeley CA 94705
Voice: (510) 914-1988
Text: Helps communities in rural Nicaragua to build their own gravity-flow
clean drinking water systems and sanitation. We develop sustainable
local health education programs in the communities and also run a
technical school which is providing the next generation of water
technicians to Nicaragua.
All APLV projects follow a community-driven process. The community
requests the project, organizes itself to build, and does the manual
labor of the building, resulting in a project which can maintain
itself indefinitely. APLV provides technical leadership, community
organization support, and materials.
Web: http://www.aplv.org
Keys: development; health; Nicaragua; rural life; self-help; volunteer
matching; water
[Contact data last verified 09 Apr 2016]
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Name: AIDS Emergency Fund
Address: 12 Grace Street, Suite 300 (between 9th and 10th Streets)
San Francisco CA 94103
Voice: (415) 558-6999
Fax: (415) 558-6990
Text: Provides critical financial assistance to people living with disabling
HIV/AIDS.
Web: http://www.aef-sf.org
Keys: AIDS / HIV; community-building; finance; grants / financial aid;
low-income; volunteer matching
[Contact data last verified 06 Jan 2018]
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Name: AIDS Legal Referral Panel (ALRP)
Address: 1663 Mission Street, Suite 500
San Francisco CA 94103
Voice: (415) 701-1100 (client line)
(415) 701-1200 (business line)
Fax: (415) 701-1400
Text: The only institution in the San Francisco Bay Area solely dedicated to
providing free and low-cost legal assistance and education on
virtually any civil matter to persons living with HIV/AIDS. This
includes such widely disparate areas as housing, bankruptcy/credit,
immigration, employment, insurance, confidentiality matters, family
law, government benefits, and public accommodations. We accomplish
this mission through either direct representation of clients by one of
ALRP’s eight attorneys or by careful placement of clients with one of
ALRP’s 700 Panel attorneys.
Web: http://www.alrp.org/
Keys: AIDS / HIV; classes / courses; housing; law; lawyers; legal services;
services; volunteer matching
[Contact data last verified 10 Jan 2015]
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Name: AK Press
Address: 370 Ryan Avenue, Unit 100
Chico CA 95973
Voice: (510) 208-1700
Text: A worker-run collective that publishes and distributes radical books,
visual and audio media, and other mind-altering material. We're small:
seven people who work long hours for short money, because we believe
in what we do. We're anarchists, which is reflected both in the books
we provide and in the way we organize our business. Decisions at AK
Press are made collectively, from what we publish, to what we
distribute and how we structure our labor. Our goal isn't profit
(although we do have to pay the rent). Our goal is supplying radical
words and images to as many people as possible. The books and other
media we distribute are published by independent presses, not the
corporate giants.
Email: info@akpress.org
Web: http://www.akpress.org
Keys: anarchism; book publishers; book sellers; magazines; mail-order;
products
[Contact data last verified 27 Nov 2016]
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Name: Akha Heritage Foundation
Text: Seeks to defend the human rights and culture of the Akha people and
promote self determination for the Akha while assisting with
nutrition, medical and educational needs. We believe that the security
and well-being of Akha communities must take priority over
"development" by outside interests.
We are strongly opposed to mission organizations which would remove
Akha Children and destroy Akha language, literature, culture and
identity. We believe that the defense of land rights and other human
rights is at the heart of any just system, and we would oppose those
who remain silent while these abuses continue.
Web: http://www.akha.org/
Keys: deforestation; human rights; indigenous people; Myanmar; Thailand;
Vietnam; water
[Contact data last verified 16 Jul 2016]
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Name: Al-Awda: The Palestine Right to Return Coalition
Text: A broad-based, non-partisan, democratic, and charitable organization
of grassroots activists and students committed to comprehensive public
education on the rights of all Palestinian refugees to return to their
homes and lands of origin, and to full restitution of all their
confiscated and destroyed property in accordance with the Universal
Declaration of Human Rights, International law and the numerous United
Nations Resolutions upholding such rights.
Web: http://al-awda.org/
Keys: coalitions; human rights; international law; Palestinians; United
Nations
[Contact data last verified 11 Oct 2015]
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Name: Alameda County Community Food Bank
Address: POBox 2599
Oakland CA 94614
Voice: (510) 635-FOOD (3663)
Fax: (510) 635-3773
Text: We are the hub of a vast collection and distribution network that
provides food for 240 nonprofit agencies in Alameda County. In 2014,
the Food Bank distributed 25 million meals -- more than half of the
food was fresh fruits and vegetables.
Since moving into our permanent facility near the Oakland Airport in
2005 and leading the national food bank movement for a ban on the
distribution of carbonated beverages, the Food Bank has ramped up
distribution of fresh fruits and vegetables by more than 1,000%.
Located at 7900 Edgewater Drive, Oakland, CA 94621.
Email: info@accfb.org
Web: http://www.accfb.org
Keys: Alameda County (below Oakland); food banks; hunger; low-income
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Name: Alameda Creek Alliance
Address: POBox 2626
Niles CA 94536
Voice: (510) 499-9185
Text: Works to restore native wildlife, plants, habitats and ecosystems
within the Alameda Creek watershed as much as possible given modern
constraints. We also seek to protect undeveloped areas along the creek
for their habitat value to native flora and fauna.
Our efforts are focused on bringing wild steelhead trout, often cited
as an “indicator species” of watershed health, back to our watershed.
But restoration involves far more than charismatic fish, for as John
Muir famously said, “When we try to pick out anything by itself, we
find it hitched to everything else in the Universe.”
Web: http://www.alamedacreek.org
Keys: Alameda County (below Oakland); creek restoration; endangered species
/ habitat; water; watersheds
[Contact data last verified 05 Apr 2015]
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Name: Alameda Family Services
Address: 2325 Clement Avenue, Suite A
Alameda CA 94501
Voice: (510) 629-6300
Fax: (510) 865-1930
Text: A human services organization, active in Alameda and the East Bay,
whose programs improve the emotional, psychological, and physical
health of children, youth, and families.
Email: info@alamedafs.org
Web: http://www.alamedafs.org/
Keys: alcohol; children; classes / courses; counseling; drugs; family;
health; homelessness; psychology; services; youth
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Name: Alameda Food Bank
Address: POBox 2167
Alameda CA 94501
Voice: (510) 523-5850
Text: Mission is to provide nutritious food to the low-income residents of
the City of Alameda on a non-discriminating basis. The Alameda Food
Bank is a private, non-affiliated, non-profit, tax-exempt agency. The
Food Bank is overseen by a board of directors composed of community
volunteers. Its day to day operation is run by two paid staff members
and over 150 volunteers.
Located at 1900 Thau Way in Alameda.
Email: director@alamedafoodbank.org
Web: http://www.alamedafoodbank.org
Keys: food banks; hunger; low-income; material aid; services
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Name: Alameda Green Parties
Text: The web site of the City of Alameda Greens, Oakland Greens, and Campus
Greens.
Web: http://cagreens.org/alameda/
Keys: greens; political parties
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Name: Alameda Point Collaborative (APC)
Address: 677 West Ranger Avenue
Alameda CA 94501
Voice: (510) 898-7800
Fax: (510) 898-7858
Text: A supportive housing community that uses all its resources to help
families and individuals break the cycle of homelessness and poverty.
We are the largest supportive housing provider for homeless families
in Alameda County, and our wide range of services give residents the
tools they need for long-term success.
Residents work with on-site case managers and counselors to break down
barriers to stability. Adults in the community may participate in our
workforce development program and take advantage of one of our
on-the-job training opportunities. The nearly 300 children and youth
who call APC home get the help they need for academic success.
Web: http://www.apcollaborative.org/
Keys: community-building; cycling; gardening; homelessness; housing; mental
health; services
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Name: Ali Ebrahimzadeh, Esq.
Voice: (800) 510-3916
Text: Rated a "Top 100 Trial Lawyer" by the National Trial Lawyers
Organization, I am dedicated to providing aggressive, intelligent, and
ethical legal representation in the areas of Business & Property Law,
Criminal Defense, Divorce Law, and Education Law in California, New
York, Massachusetts, and Washington, DC. You can read more about me on
my website.
Email: info@AEesq.com
Web: http://www.AEesq.com
Keys: business; civil disobedience; civil rights; criminal justice;
discrimination; education; family; lawyers; litigation; mediation;
police accountability
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Name: All Of Us Or None poster archive project (AOUON)
Text: Started by Free Speech Movement activist Michael Rossman in 1977 to
gather and document the poster-work of modern progressive movements in
the United States. Though earlier work is included, its focus is on
the domestic political poster renaissance, which began in 1965 and
continues to this day. The Archive gathered posters from all streams
of progressive activity — from movements of protest, liberation, and
affirmative action, trade union and community struggles, to electoral
and environmental organizing, community services, and visionary
manifestos.
Web: http://www.docspopuli.org/articles/AOUON
http://www.museumca.org
Keys: archiving; free speech; posters and flyers
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Name: Alliance for Girls
Address: c/o Girls Inc. of Alameda County
510 16th Street
Oakland CA 94612
Voice: (510) 629-9464
Fax: (510) 318-5399
Text: The largest regional alliance of girl-serving organizations and
leaders in the country. Our membership includes 100+ organizations
that employ 2,400 people with more than 5,100 volunteers serving more
than 300,000 girls across 6 Bay Area counties.
Our member organizations collectively support girls in a wide range of
issues including education, STEM, media literacy, outdoor exploration
and athletics, domestic violence, leadership skills, political
participation, restorative justice, human trafficking and sexual
exploitation, and physical and mental health.
Email: emma@alliance4girls.org
Web: http://www.alliance4girls.org
Keys: children; coalitions; domestic violence; leadership development; media
criticism; outdoor activity
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Name: Ally Electric and Solar
Address: 855 Marina Bay Pkwy, Suite 29
Richmond CA 94804
Voice: (510) 559-7700
Text: A locally owned and operated electric and solar company serving the
greater San Francisco Bay Area since 1998. We specialize in creating
energy efficient solutions for residential and commercial properties.
We are also a full service electrical company so you get two solutions
under one roof! No need to deal with extra vendors for electrical
upgrades and energy assessments, we get you ready to go solar and can
upgrade your electrical needs!
We strive to be an ally for the environment, for our customers and for
our business partners. We value our employees and foster a company
culture that supports growth and forward thinking in our own lives.
ALLY Electric and Solar works towards a brighter future.
Email: info@allyelectricandsolar.com
Web: http://www.AllyElectricAndSolar.com
Keys: products; solar energy
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Name: Alternative Family Services, Inc. (AFS)
Address: 1421 Guerneville Road, Suite 218
Santa Rosa CA 95403
Voice: (707) 576-7700
Text: They say, “It takes a village to raise a child.” AFS is that village
for hundreds of Northern California foster children and their
families. AFS is a foster, adoptions and mental health agency that has
been creating safe, permanent connections for foster children and
youth in the Bay Area since 1978.
Email: info@afs4kids.org
Web: http://www.afs4kids.org/
Keys: adoption & foster care; disabilities; mental health; services
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Name: Alternative Radio
Text: A weekly one-hour public affairs program offered free to all public
radio stations in the U.S., Canada, Europe and beyond. AR provides
information, analyses and views that are frequently ignored or
distorted in other media. Our program airs on over 185 radio stations.
Our headquarters, with three paid staff, is located in Boulder,
Colorado.
Web: http://www.alternativeradio.org/
Keys: analysis; free speech; mail-order; radio; speakers
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Name: AlterNet (Alternative News Network)
Text: An award-winning news magazine and online community that creates
original journalism and amplifies the best of hundreds of other
independent media sources. AlterNet’s aim is to inspire action and
advocacy on the environment, human rights and civil liberties, social
justice, media, health care issues, and more. Since its inception in
1998, AlterNet.org has grown dramatically to keep pace with the public
demand for independent news. We provide free online content to
millions of readers, serving as a reliable filter, keeping our vast
audience well-informed and engaged, helping them to navigate a culture
of information overload and providing an alternative to the commercial
media onslaught. Our aim is to stimulate, inform, and instigate.
Web: http://www.alternet.org
Keys: editorial comment; news on-line
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Name: AlterNetRides.com
Text: The premier way to encourage all forms of alternative transportation:
carpooling, vanpooling, biking, walking, using public transportation
and more. It is fast, simple to use, and easy to setup.
Web: http://AlterNetRides.com
Keys: carpools; networking; transportation
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Name: Amazigh Cultural Association in America (ACAA)
Text: Organized and operated exclusively for cultural, educational, and
scientific purposes to contribute to saving, promoting, and enriching
the Amazigh (Berber) language and culture.
While the heartland of Amazigh culture lies in North Africa, including
the Canary Islands, people of Amazigh background also live around the
globe, by reason of emigration. The need for many people of Amazigh
descent in America to connect culturally with the Amazigh world can be
seen, ultimately, as the major reason for the birth of ACAA.
Web: http://www.tamazgha.org
Keys: Africa; Arabs; Berbers; cultural survival; immigrants; indigenous
people
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Name: Amazon Watch
Text: Works to protect the rainforest and advance the rights of indigenous
peoples in the Amazon Basin. We partner with indigenous and
environmental organizations in campaigns for human rights, corporate
accountability and the preservation of the Amazon's ecological
systems.
We envision a world that honors and values cultural and biological
diversity and the critical contribution of tropical rainforests to our
planet's life support system. We believe that indigenous
self-determination is a critical component of any successful
conservation strategy for the Amazon, and see that indigenous
knowledge, cultures and traditional practices contribute greatly to
sustainable and equitable stewardship of Mother Earth.
Web: http://www.amazonwatch.org/
Keys: corporations; development; indigenous people; petroleum; South
America; transportation; watchdog groups
[Contact data last verified 24 Mar 2018]
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Name: America Walks
Text: Leading the way in making America a great place to walk. We provide a
voice for walking and walkable communities with federal agencies,
provide strategy support, training and technical assistance to
statewide, regional, and local organizations, and serve as the
convener of the national Every Body Walk! Collaborative. Together,
America Walks and the Every Body Walk! Collaborative boast 700 allied
organizations who across the nation are working to increase walking
and make America a better place to walk.
Web: http://americawalks.org/
Keys: national government; pedestrian advocacy; technical assistance;
walking
[Contact data last verified 30 Sep 2017]
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Name: American Civil Liberties Union of Northern California (ACLU-NC)
Address: 39 Drumm Street (near 13th Street)
San Francisco CA 94111
Voice: (415) 621-2493
Fax: (415) 255-1478
Text: An enduring guardian of justice, fairness, equality, and freedom,
working to protect and advance civil liberties for all Californians.
For nearly a century, the ACLU of Northern California has been at the
heart of many of the major — and sometimes controversial — struggles
for civil liberties in our state. We make sure that Constitutional
rights — to free speech, to privacy, to due process — don’t just exist
on paper, but also in practice. The ACLU is the first line of defense
against threats to civil liberties and we work to ensure these
freedoms are guaranteed to every person in this country.
Web: http://www.aclunc.org
Keys: civil liberties; counseling; lawyers; legal services; libraries;
litigation; lobbying; privacy
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Name: American Community Gardening Association (ACGA)
Text: A bi-national nonprofit membership organization of professionals,
volunteers and supporters of community greening in urban and rural
communities. The Association recognizes that community gardening
improves people’s quality of life by providing a catalyst for
neighborhood and community development, stimulating social
interaction, encouraging self-reliance, beautifying neighborhoods,
producing nutritious food, reducing family food budgets, conserving
resources and creating opportunities for recreation, exercise, therapy
and education.
Web: http://www.communitygarden.org
Keys: community-building; gardening
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Name: American Farmland Trust (AFT)
Text: Mission is to protect farmland, promote sound farming practices, and
keep farmers on the land.
Web: http://farmland.org
Keys: agriculture; conservation; development; policy; sustainability
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Name: American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, AFL-CIO,
District Council 57 (AFSCME Council 57)
Address: 80 Swan Way, Suite 110
Oakland CA 94621
Voice: (510) 577-9694
Text: Established in 1963 to improve wages, benefits, and working conditions
through organizing, collective bargaining, and political action. We
represent workers in schools and community colleges, transit agencies,
public works and services, clinics and hospitals, and water and
wastewater facilities throughout Northern California and the Central
Valley. Our members are also the health and social service
professionals in corrections facilities across California.
Email: webmaster@ca.afscme57.org
Web: http://www.afscme57.org/
Keys: labor union locals; municipal government
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Name: American Friends Service Committee (San Francisco office) (AFSC)
Address: 65 Ninth Street
San Francisco CA 94103-1401
Voice: (415) 565-0201
Text: A Quaker organization that promotes lasting peace with justice, as a
practical expression of faith in action. Drawing on continuing
spiritual insights and working with people of many backgrounds, we
nurture the seeds of change and respect for human life that transform
social relations and systems.
Email: pmr@afsc.org
Web: http://www.afsc.org/
Keys: agriculture; Asian Americans; criminal justice; economic justice;
homelessness; immigrants; material aid; Middle East; militarism;
Native Americans; Pacific Islands; police accountability; volunteer
matching; youth
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Name: American Hiking Society (AHS)
Text: Champions conservation issues, builds public and private partnerships,
supports volunteer stewardship, and provides critical resources to
help plan, fund, and develop trails. We also provide resources to the
public about how and where to hike and are committed to increasing the
participation and enjoyment of hiking by everyone.
Web: http://www.americanhiking.org/
Keys: conservation; hiking; land use; lobbying; outdoor activity; trails
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Name: American Humanist Association (AHA)
Text: We strive to bring about a progressive society where being good
without a god is an accepted and respected way to live life. We are
accomplishing this through our defense of civil liberties and secular
governance, by our outreach to the growing number of people without
traditional religious faith, and through a continued refinement and
advancement of the humanist worldview.
Humanism encompasses a variety of nontheistic views (atheism,
agnosticism, rationalism, naturalism, secularism, and so forth) while
adding the important element of a comprehensive worldview and set of
ethical values – values that are grounded in the philosophy of the
Enlightenment, informed by scientific knowledge, and driven by a
desire to meet the needs of people in the here and now.
Web: http://www.americanhumanist.org/
Keys: art; humanism; religion; science
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Name: American Indian Movement - West (AIM-WEST)
Voice: (415) 577-1492
Text: AIM-West contains a spirit of resistance to colonization, respect for
traditional knowledge and self-determination, and a commitment to
inter-tribalism. Among the objectives of AIM-West is to raise
awareness on issues that concern or impact upon Indians of the
Americas on a daily basis ranging from racism in sports and public
schools, to protection of sacred sites, mining and water
contamination, youth and the rights of the child, honor and respect
for treaties and agreements, political prisoners, police brutality,
immigration and militarization of the borders, climate change, and
implementation of the recent adoption by the United Nations General
Assembly of the “Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples”.
Email: eltony1492@gmail.com
Web: http://www.aim-west.org/
Keys: Native Americans
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Name: American Muslim Voice (AMV)
Address: 120 Park Avenue
Palo Alto CA 94306
Voice: (650) 387-1994
Text: Our mission is to foster friendships among all Americans by bridging
cultural and religious gaps. We also work towards protecting and
preserving civil liberties and constitutional rights for ALL.
The AMV Foundation is committed to connect people from all walks of
life. Through education and social interaction we will erase our fears
and will joyously accept each other so we can celebrate our diversity.
We are taking the interfaith dialog to the next level by fostering
life long friendships among all Americans.
Email: saminasundas@gmail.com
Web: http://www.amuslimvoice.org
Keys: civil liberties; human rights; Muslims
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Name: American Nonsmokers’ Rights Foundation (ANRF)
Text: A 501(c)3, educational nonprofit organization, which creates
comprehensive programs to prevent the harmful effects of secondhand
smoke and smoking among youth and adults. Incorporated in 1984, the
organization has more than 30 years experience promoting prevention
and education about smoking, secondhand smoke, and exposing tobacco
industry interference with public health policies. Our goals include
educating the public about the health effects of secondhand smoke and
the benefits of smokefree environments. Ultimately, our efforts are
intended to create a smokefree generation of Americans that rejects
tobacco use and is savvy to tobacco industry tactics.
Web: http://www.no-smoke.org
Keys: addiction; air; health; legislation; lobbying; policy; tobacco; youth
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Name: American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC)
Text: A civil rights organization committed to defending the rights of
people of Arab descent and promoting their rich cultural heritage.
ADC was founded by former U.S. Senator James Abourezk in 1980. Today,
ADC is the largest Arab American grassroots organization in the U.S.
ADC supports the human and civil rights of all people and opposes
racism and bigotry in any form.
Web: http://www.adc.org/
Keys: Arab Americans; civil rights; discrimination
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Name: Americans for a Palestinian State
Address: POBox 99635
Emeryville CA 94662
Voice: (888) 878-3708
Text: Our mission is to provide support to congressional representatives in
order to enable them to help find a fair solution to the
Palestinian/Israeli conflict.
The peace and security of the United States are tied to the peace and
security of both Israel and the Palestinians. No one can be safe until
all are safe. While both sides are committing atrocities, the cause of
the conflict is the occupation, settlements and crimes against
humanity committed by Israel on the Palestinians. These crimes are
aided and abetted by us, the American taxpayer.
Web: http://apstate.us/
Keys: Israelis; Palestinians; peace; Political Action Committees (PACs)
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Name: Americans for Safe Access (ASA)
Text: Mission is to ensure safe and legal access to cannabis (marijuana) for
therapeutic use and research.
ASA was founded in 2002, by medical cannabis patient Steph Sherer, as
a vehicle for patients to advocate for the acceptance of cannabis as
medicine. With over 100,000 active members in all 50 states, ASA is
the largest national member-based organization of patients, medical
professionals, scientists and concerned citizens promoting safe and
legal access to cannabis for therapeutic use and research. ASA works
to overcome political, social and legal barriers by creating policies
that improve access to medical cannabis for patients and researchers
through legislation, education, litigation, research, grassroots
empowerment, advocacy and services for patients, governments, medical
professionals, and medical cannabis providers.
Web: http://www.safeaccessnow.org
Keys: healthcare access; law; medical marijuana; policy; research; science;
therapy
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Name: Americans United for Separation of Church and State (AUSV)
Text: We are dedicated to preserving the constitutional principle of
church-state separation as the only way to ensure religious freedom
for all.
AU represents members and supporters in all 50 states and the District
of Columbia. We come from different religious, political and
philosophical viewpoints, but we share a common commitment to
church-state separation and individual freedom.
Web: http://www.au.org
Keys: civil liberties; free speech; policy; Santa Clara County; separation
of church and state
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Name: Amnesty International (AI)
Text: Through our detailed research and determined campaigning, we help
fight abuses of human rights worldwide. We bring torturers to justice.
Change oppressive laws. And free people jailed just for voicing their
opinion.
Web: http://www.amnesty.org/
Keys: death penalty; human rights; political prisoners; torture
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Name: AnewAmerica
Address: 1918 University Avenue, Suite 3A
Berkeley CA 94704
Voice: (510) 540-7785
Fax: (510) 540-7786
Text: Exists to enrich the lives of its participants and their families
while strengthening their contributions to America as a whole.
AnewAmerica provides training and technical assistance to targeted
communities for economic and social empowerment through a focus on
green entrepreneurship, asset building, social responsibility and
civic engagement. We work with traditionally challenged communities,
which include new Americans (new citizens, refugees and immigrants),
women, minorities and low to moderate income households, to empower
them to make their American dream a reality while contributing to the
economic growth and social capital of their communities.
Email: info@anewamerica.org
Web: http://www.anewamerica.org
Keys: business; immigrants; refugees; services
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Name: Animal Legal Defense Fund (ALDF)
Address: 525 East Cotati Avenue
Cotati CA 94931
Voice: (707) 795-2533
Fax: (707) 795-7280
Text: Mission is to protect the lives and advance the interests of animals
through the legal system. ALDF accomplishes this mission by filing
high-impact lawsuits to protect animals from harm, providing free
legal assistance and training to prosecutors to assure that animal
abusers are punished for their crimes, supporting tough animal
protection legislation and fighting legislation harmful to animals,
and providing resources and opportunities to law students and
professionals to advance the emerging field of animal law.
Email: info@aldf.org
Web: http://aldf.org
Keys: animal liberation; legal defense
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Name: Animal Place
Address: POBox 1118
Grass Valley CA 95945
Voice: (530) 477-1757
Text: One of the oldest and largest sanctuaries for farmed animals in the
country. Nestled on 600-acres in Grass Valley, CA, Animal Place
provides refuge to hundreds of neglected farmed animals. In addition
to permanent sanctuary, Animal Place’s Rescue Ranch is a 60-acre
adoption center, placing needy farmed animals into permanent homes.
Sanctuary is important work, but Animal Place strives to create
meaningful change for farmed animals through advocacy and education.
Thousands of visitors flock to the sanctuary each year to learn more
about the animals and farming. Volunteer classes introduce folks to
the more intense ways people can help. Internships are also available.
Email: info@animalplace.org
Web: http://AnimalPlace.org/
Keys: agriculture; animal liberation; Solano County; wildlife
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Name: Animal Rescue Foundation (ARF)
Address: POBox 30215
Walnut Creek CA 94598
Voice: (925) 256-1273 (1ARF)
Fax: (925) 977-9079
Text: Saves dogs and cats who have run out of time at public shelters and
brings people and animals together to enrich each others lives. ARF
strives to create a world where every loving dog and cat has a home,
where every lonely person has a companion animal, and where children
learn to care.
Web: http://www.arf.net/
Keys: animal shelters and adoption
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Name: Animal Switchboard
Voice: (415) 533-0133
Text: Providing information, connections, resources, and referrals on animal
rights, animal welfare, animal legislation, spay/neuter,
rescue/adoption, volunteer opportunities, animal organizations, and
other animal-related issues and concerns.
Email: info@animalswitchboard.net
Keys: animal liberation; animal shelters and adoption; directories;
legislation
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Name: Animals Voice
Text: An independent online resource for helping animals and the people who
defend them. We are an award-winning networking source of recent media
coverage, timely information, and an incalculable volume of resources
for animals and their defenders. We feature the latest animal rights
news, multimedia, events, victories, thought-provoking and
inspirational editorial, graphic and compelling photography, and
in-depth investigative reports.
Web: http://www.animalsvoice.com/
Keys: animal liberation; boycotts; editorial comment; networking; news
on-line; photography
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Name: Anita Borg Institute for Women and Technology (ABI)
Address: 1501 Page Mill Road, MS 1105
Palo Alto CA 94304
Voice: (650) 352-7500
Text: We envision a future where the people who imagine and build technology
mirror the people and societies for whom they build it. We connect,
inspire, and guide women in computing, and organizations that view
technology innovation as a strategic imperative.
Our social enterprise supports women in technical fields, as well as
the organizations that employ them and the academic institutions
training the next generation. A full roster of programs help women
grow, learn, and develop their highest potential.
Email: AnitaB@hotwireglobal.com
Web: https://anitab.org/
Keys: leadership development; research; technology; women
[Contact data last verified 06 Apr 2018]
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Name: Anti Police-Terror Project (APTP)
Text: A group of concerned and committed institutions, organizations, and
individuals dedicated to ending state-sanctioned murder and violence
perpetuated against Black, Brown and Poor people. We are a Black led,
multi-racial, multi-generational coalition. Join us as we organize to
resist police terror and create a strong and sustainable community
support system. APTP is not a non-profit organization.
Web: http://www.antipoliceterrorproject.org/
Keys: coalitions; police accountability; racism; violence
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Name: Anti-Defamation League
Text: Founded in 1913 "to stop the defamation of the Jewish people and to
secure justice and fair treatment to all." Now the nation's premier
civil rights/human relations agency, ADL fights anti-Semitism and all
forms of bigotry, defends democratic ideals and protects civil rights
for all.
Web: http://www.adl.org/
Keys: civil rights; Jewish Americans
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Name: Anti-Slavery International
Text: Founded in 1839, we are the oldest international human rights
organisation in the world.
Today, we draw on our experience to work to eliminate all forms of
slavery and slavery like practices throughout the world.
We are not interested in easy solutions. Instead, we deal with the
root causes of slavery and its consequences to achieve sustainable
change.
Web: http://www.antislavery.org/
Keys: human rights; slavery
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Name: antiwar.com
Text: This site is devoted to the cause of non-interventionism and is read
by libertarians, pacifists, leftists, "greens," and independents
alike, as well as many on the Right who agree with our opposition to
imperialism. Our initial project was to fight against intervention in
the Balkans under the Clinton presidency. We applied the same
principles to Clinton's campaigns in Haiti and Kosovo and bombings of
Sudan and Afghanistan. Our politics are libertarian: our opposition to
war is rooted in Randolph Bourne's concept that "War is the health of
the State." With every war, America has made a "great leap" into
statism, and as Bourne emphasized, "it is during war that one best
understands the nature of that institution [the State]." At its core,
that nature includes an ever increasing threat to individual liberty
and the centralization of political power.
Web: http://www.antiwar.com/
Keys: imperialism; libertarianism; militarism; news on-line
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Name: API Equality - Northern California (APIENC)
Address: c/o Chinese for Affirmative Action
17 Walter U. Lum Place
San Francisco CA 94108
Voice: (415) 274-6750 x317
Fax: (415) 397-8770
Text: Builds LGBTQ API power to amplify our voices and increase visibility
of our communities. Through organizing, we inspire and train leaders,
establish intergenerational connections, and document and disseminate
our histories.
We envision a world where Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer
Asians and Pacific Islanders can be present and affirmed in our
families and communities as our full authentic selves.
Email: info@apiequalitync.org
Web: http://apiequalitync.org/
Keys: Asian Americans; marriage rights; Pacific Islands; sexual minorities
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Name: API Wellness
Address: 730 Polk Street (between Ellis and Eddy streets)
San Francisco CA 94109
Voice: (415) 292-3400
Fax: (415) 292-3404
Text: We are an LGBTQ and people of color health organization that
transforms lives by advancing health, wellness, and equality. We
believe everyone deserves to be healthy and needs access to the
highest-quality health care. We foster resilience, strength,
connection, health, and wellness for all communities. To us, health
care will always be grounded in social justice.
Email: info@apiwellness.org
Web: http://www.apiwellness.org
Keys: AIDS / HIV; Asian Americans; health; immigrants; Pacific Islands;
people of color; refugees; services; sexual minorities
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Name: Arab Cultural and Community Center (ACCC)
Address: 2 Plaza Street
San Francisco CA 94116
Voice: (415) 664-2200
Fax: (415) 664-2280
Text: Devoted to preserve, promote and strengthen Arab culture and the
community through art, education and culturally relevant social
services in the San Francisco Bay Area.
The ACCC is a leading resource for social services and referrals for
Arab American communities in the San Francisco Bay Area, and is the
only agency in Northern California providing domestic violence and
sexual assault education and prevention programs, as well as intensive
case management and mental health care in Arabic for Arab and Muslim
survivors of domestic violence.
Email: info@arabculturalcenter.org
Web: http://www.arabculturalcenter.org
Keys: Arab Americans; cultural survival; history; services
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Name: Arab Resource & Organizing Center (AROC)
Address: 522 Valencia Sreet
San Francisco CA 94110
Voice: (415) 861-7444
Text: A grassroots organization working to empower and organize our
community towards justice and self-determination for all. AROC members
build community power in the Bay Area by participating in leadership
development, political education, and campaigns.
Email: info@araborganizing.org
Web: http://www.araborganizing.org/
Keys: Arab Americans; leadership development; self-determination
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Name: Architects / Designers / Planners for Social Responsibility (Northern
California Chapter) (ADPSR)
Address: POBox 9126
Berkeley CA 94709-0126
Voice: (510) 845-1000
Text: Works for peace, environmental protection, ecological building, social
justice, and the development of healthy communities. ADPSR programs
aim to raise professional and public awareness of critical social and
environmental issues, further responsive design and planning, and
honor persons and organizations whose work exemplifies social
responsibility.
Web: http://adpsr.org
Keys: architecture; development; ecology; militarism
[Contact data last verified 06 Apr 2018]
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Name: Armenian National Committee, San Francisco Bay Area Chapter (ANC)
Address: 51 Commonwealth Avenue
San Francisco CA 94118
Voice: (415) 387-3433
Fax: (415) 751-0617
Text: A grassroots public affairs organization serving to inform, educate,
and act on a wide range of issues concerning Armenian Americans
throughout the San Francisco Bay Area.
The San Francisco Bay Area ANC, or "Hai Tad" committee has been an
important presence for Armenian American political action in the Bay
Area for decades. Our efforts span a wide range: meeting with
political representatives and diplomats about issues affecting our
community, participating in local campaigns, publicizing the Armenian
Cause and educating the community, fighting historic revisionism, and
promoting recognition of the Armenian Genocide.
Email: mail@ancsf.org
Web: http://www.ancsf.org
Keys: Armenian Americans; genocide; history
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Name: Art in Action
Address: 3925 Bohannon Drive, Suite 300
Menlo Park CA 94025
Voice: (650) 566-8339
Fax: (650) 566-8319
Text: Provides a high quality, comprehensive K-8 visual arts curriculum.
Students learn about works of art from cultures around the world, how
to look at art using art vocabulary and concepts; and how to express
themselves by creating their own unique masterpieces. Taught by parent
volunteers or teacher, the program is supported by training classes
and online resources and creates a community of art at schools. The
multifaceted lessons develop students’ critical-thinking skills,
creativity, visual literacy, self-esteem, and an appreciation of other
cultures.
Email: info@artinaction.org
Web: http://www.artinaction.org
Keys: art; children; educational curriculum; history
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Name: Art of Yoga Project
Address: 555 Bryant Street #232
Palo Alto CA 94301-1704
Text: Designed to help at-risk girls by focusing on early intervention and
preparing girls for a positive future. We are leaders in
revolutionizing the rehabilitation of girls by offering
trauma-informed, strength-based, gender-responsive services.
Our mission is to lead teenage girls in the California juvenile
justice system toward accountability to self, others and community by
providing practical tools to affect behavioral change.
Web: http://www.theartofyogaproject.org/
Keys: juvenile justice; yoga; youth
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Name: Artists' Television Access (ATA)
Address: 992 Valencia Street (near 21st)
San Francisco CA 94110
Voice: (415) 824-3890
Text: A San Francisco-based, artist-run, non-profit organization that
cultivates and promotes culturally-aware, underground media and
experimental art. We provide an accessible screening venue and gallery
for the presentation of programmed and guest-curated screenings,
exhibitions, performances, workshops and events. We believe in
fostering a supportive community for the exhibition of innovative art
and the exchange of non-conformist ideas.
Email: ata@atasite.org
Web: http://www.atasite.org
Keys: art; classes / courses; computers; film / video; Internet; spaces for
events; television
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Name: ArtSpan
Address: SOMArts Cultural Center
934 Brannan Street, 2nd Floor
San Francisco CA 94103
Voice: (415) 861-9838
Text: Committed to cultivating a vibrant, accessible, and world-class art
community in San Francisco and to promoting the city's unique creative
energy locally and globally. We champion an inclusive art experience
by providing hundreds of local artists with the equal opportunity to
showcase their work and make direct connections to diverse audiences
and patrons. We are guided by the belief that artists play a vital
role in society and that broad public engagement with their work is
essential to defining a new cultural environment for our changing
city.
Email: info@artspan.org
Web: http://www.artspan.org
Keys: art; urban life
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Name: As You Sow
Address: 1611 Telegraph Avenue, Suite 1450
Oakland CA 94612
Voice: (510) 735-8158
Fax: (510) 735-8143
Text: Promotes environmental and social corporate responsibility through
shareholder advocacy, coalition building, and innovative legal
strategies. Our efforts create large-scale systemic change by
establishing sustainable and equitable corporate practices.
As You Sow was founded on the belief that many environmental and human
rights issues can be resolved by increased corporate responsibility.
As investor representatives, we communicate directly with corporate
executives to collaboratively develop and implement business models
that reduce risk, benefit brand reputation, and protect long term
shareholder value while simultaneously bringing about positive change
for the environment and human rights.
Web: http://www.asyousow.org
Keys: consumer protection; corporations; law; shareholder advocacy; toxics;
water
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Name: Asexuality Visibility and Education Network (AVEN)
Text: Hosts the world's largest online asexual community as well as a large
archive of resources on asexuality. AVEN strives to create open,
honest discussion about asexuality among sexual and asexual people
alike.
Unlike celibacy, which is a choice, asexuality is a sexual
orientation. Asexual people have the same emotional needs as everybody
else and are just as capable of forming intimate relationships.
Web: http://www.asexuality.org
Keys: networking; sexual minorities; support groups
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Name: Ashkenaz Music and Dance Community Center (Ashkenaz)
Address: 1317 San Pablo Avenue (near Gilman)
Berkeley CA 94702
Voice: (510) 525-5099 (office)
(510) 525-5054 (showline)
Fax: (510) 525-3630
Text: Presents concerts, classes, and workshops of participatory dance and
music rooted in traditional cultures from around the world. We are
committed to providing a great place to dance that supports local and
international bands of both established and emerging artists in a
respectful, comfortable, safe, family atmosphere. Through this we
build friendship and culturally inclusive community that encourages
social awareness, education, and dedication to fairness, honor, and
equality.
Email: ashkenaz@ashkenaz.com
Web: http://www.ashkenaz.com/
Keys: benefits; multiculturalism; music; spaces for events
[Contact data last verified 06 Apr 2018]
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Name: Asian Americans for Community Involvement (AACI)
Address: 2400 Moorpark Avenue, Suite 300
San Jose CA 95128
Voice: (408) 975-2730
Fax: (408) 975-2745
Text: Santa Clara County’s largest community-based organization focused on
the Asian community. Our mission is to improve the health, mental
health and well-being of individuals, families and the Asian community
by:
* Providing an array of high quality health and human services.
* Sharing expertise about the Asian community’s needs and best
service delivery practices.
* Providing Asian leadership in advocating on key health and human
services issues.
Email: info@aaci.org
Web: http://www.aaci.org
Keys: Asian Americans; domestic violence; drugs; health; immigrants; mental
health; refugees; seniors; services; shelters; torture; youth
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Name: Asian Americans for Community Outreach (AACO)
Text: An organization dedicated to creating a forum in the San Francisco Bay
Area where Asian American professionals and students can meet and
foster the common goal of community service, benefiting the extended
community as a whole.
AACO members can be found throughout the Bay Area. AACO organizes
community service and social events and promotes awareness of social
and political issues relevant to Asian Americans. By bringing together
people from many diverse fields, AACO hopes to pool its members'
knowledge, strength, and experience to make a positive impact on our
community.
Email: info@aaco-sf.org
Web: http://www.aaco-sf.org
Keys: Asian Americans; calendars; community-building; low-income; students
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Name: Asian Community Mental Health Services
Address: 310 Eighth Street, Suite 201
Oakland CA 94607
Voice: (510) 869-6000
Fax: (510) 268-0202
Text: Provides multicultural and multilingual services, empowering the most
vulnerable members of our community to lead healthy, productive and
contributing lives.
Our vision is to grow as a responsive and innovative organization,
embracing diversity and compassionate care, setting the standard of
excellence for integrated services to Asian & Pacific Islander
communities.
Email: info@acmhs.org
Web: http://www.acmhs.org
Keys: Asian Americans; disabilities; drugs; family; mental health;
multiculturalism; self-sufficiency; services
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Name: Asian Health Services
Address: 818 Webster Street
Oakland CA 94607
Voice: (510) 986-6800
Text: We are a community health center that offers primary health care
services with 36 exam rooms and a dental clinic with 7 chairs.
Our mission is to serve and advocate for the medically underserved,
including the immigrant and refugee Asian community, and to assure
equal access to health care services regardless of income, insurance
status, language, or culture.
Our staff is fluent in English and eleven Asian languages: Cantonese,
Vietnamese, Mandarin, Karen Korean, Khmer (Cambodian), Mien,
Mongolian, Tagalog, Lao and Burmese.
Web: http://www.asianhealthservices.org/
Keys: Asian Americans; health; services; support groups
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Name: Asian Immigrant Women Advocates (AIWA)
Address: 310 Eighth Street #301 (near Harrison)
Oakland CA 94607
Voice: (510) 268-0192
Fax: (510) 268-0194
Text: Works with immigrant workers employed in the Bay Area’s garment, home
care, hotel, restaurant, assembly and other low-wage industries, and
low-income immigrant youth in Oakland. Our organization seeks to
empower women and youth through education, leadership development and
collective action, so that they can fight for dignity and justice in
their daily lives and improve their working and living conditions.
Email: info@aiwa.org
Web: http://www.aiwa.org
Keys: Asian Americans; hotels; immigrants; labor; nursing homes; textiles;
women
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Name: Asian Law Caucus
Address: 55 Columbus Avenue
San Francisco CA 94111
Voice: (415) 896-1701
Fax: (415) 896-1702
Text: The nation’s first legal and civil rights organization serving the
low-income Asian Pacific American communities. Advancing Justice – ALC
focuses on housing rights, immigration and immigrants’ rights, labor
and employment issues, student advocacy (ASPIRE), civil rights and
hate violence, national security, and criminal justice reform. As a
founding affiliate of Asian Americans Advancing Justice, the
organization also helps to set national policies in affirmative
action, voting rights, Census and language rights.
Web: http://www.asianlawcaucus.org
Keys: Asian Americans; civil rights; immigrants; legal services; low-income;
Pacific Islands; refugees; seniors
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Name: Asian Neighborhood Design
Address: 1245 Howard Street
San Francisco CA 94103
Voice: (415) 575-0423
Text: Dedicated to providing low- and moderate-income community residents
with a full range of high quality professional architectural and
planning services. Plus we plan, design, and build affordable and
sustainable housing.
Web: http://www.andnet.org
Keys: architecture; Asian Americans; employment; housing; low-income;
multiculturalism
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Name: Asian Pacific Environmental Network (APEN)
Address: 426 17th Street, Suite 500
Oakland CA 94612
Voice: (510) 834-8920
Fax: (510) 834-8926
Text: Brings together a collective voice to develop an alternative agenda
for environmental, social and economic justice. Through building an
organized movement, we strive to bring fundamental changes to economic
and social institutions that will prioritize public good over profits
and promote the right of every person to a decent, safe, affordable
quality of life, and the right to participate in decisions affecting
our lives. APEN holds this vision of environmental justice for all
people. Our work focuses on Asian and Pacific Islander communities.
Web: http://www.apen4ej.org
Keys: Asian Americans; democracy; economic justice; environmental justice;
low-income; Pacific Islands
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Name: Asian Pacific Islander Legal Outreach
Address: 1121 Mission Street
San Francisco CA 94103
Voice: (415) 567-6255
Fax: (415) 567-6248
Text: A community-based, social justice organization serving the Asian and
Pacific Islander, and other communities of the Greater Bay Area. With
offices in Oakland and San Francisco, our work is focused in the areas
of violence against women/family law, immigration and immigrant
rights, senior law and elder abuse prevention, the rights of those
with disabilities, anti-human trafficking, youth violence prevention,
affordable housing preservation and tenants’ rights, and other social
justice issues.
Web: http://www.apilegaloutreach.org
Keys: Asian Americans; legal services; Pacific Islands; services
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Name: Asian Women's Shelter
Address: 3543 18th Street #19
San Francisco CA 94110
Voice: (415) 751-7110
Fax: (415) 751-0806
Text: Mission is to eliminate domestic violence by promoting the social,
economic and political self-determination of women and all survivors
of violence and oppression.
AWS is committed to every person’s right to live in a violence-free
home. AWS works with all survivors and has specific expertise to
address the cultural and language needs of Asian and other immigrant
and refugee survivors, as well as others who face barriers to
accessing existing sources of safety and support. In order to address
how domestic violence is compounded for survivors and communities as
it combines with sexism, classism, racism, homo/bi/transphobia,
xenophobia, ableism and ageism, AWS operates through a
margin-to-center anti-oppression framework that can create holistic
and lasting change toward peace. This perspective is reflected in our
broad strategy that integrates culturally relevant and
language-accessible shelter and transitional services, training and
capacity-building programs, systems and public policy work, and
community mobilization initiatives and advocacy.
Email: info@sfaws.org
Web: http://www.sfaws.org
Keys: Asian Americans; domestic violence; immigrants; Pacific Islands;
refugees; services; shelters
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Name: Aspect Foundation
Address: 211 Sutter Street, 10th Floor
San Francisco CA 94108
Voice: (800) 879-6884
Fax: (415) 228-8051
Text: Mission is to build international goodwill, cross-cultural
understanding and a peaceful future through educational and cultural
exchange.
Aspect Foundation was founded in 1985 as a small non-profit
organization offering affordable study-abroad opportunities to
students from around the world. We continue our mission today by
providing a variety of outstanding educational and cultural exchange
programs both in the United States and countries abroad. Students and
host families alike have the opportunity to make lasting connections
and meaningfully experience new cultures, traditions, and points of
view.
Email: exchange@aspectfoundation.org
Web: http://www.aspectfoundation.org
Keys: education; global community; interconnectedness; mentoring; students;
travel
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Name: Aspire Education Project
Address: 1904 Franklin Street, Suite 515
Oakland CA 94612
Voice: (510) 658-7500
Text: Because better education builds communities, increases economic
potential and enriches lives, Aspire Education Project is dedicated to
providing the best academic support to all K-12 students. In order to
make a lasting impact, our educators build relationships with
students, model lifelong learning and empower those they teach to
educate others.
Email: info@aspireeducation.org
Web: http://www.aspireeducation.org
Keys: education; mentoring; students
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Name: Association for India's Development (AID)
Text: A volunteer movement promoting sustainable, equitable and just
development. AID supports grassroots organizations in India and
initiates efforts in various interconnected spheres such as education,
livelihoods, natural resources including land, water and energy,
agriculture, health, women’s empowerment and social justice.
Web: http://www.aidindia.org
Keys: agriculture; development; energy; India; sustainability; water
[Contact data last verified 07 Jan 2017]
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Name: Association of Filipinas, Feminists Fighting Imperialism,
Re-feudalization, and Marginalization (SF Bay Area chapter) (AF3IRM)
Text: Association of Filipinas, Feminists Fighting Imperialism,
Re-feudalization, and Marginalization (AF3IRM), is a national
organization of women engaged in transnational feminist,
anti-imperialist activism. AF3IRM is committed to militant
movement-building from the United States and effects change through
grassroots organizing, trans-ethnic alliance building education,
advocacy and direct action.
With the slogan “a woman’s place is at the head of the struggle,”
AF3IRM is an all-volunteer, grassroots organization whose members
recognize the intersectionality of their struggles and the absolute
necessity of women’s revolutionary resistance.
Web: http://www.af3irm.org/af3irm/chapters/san-francisco-bay-area/
https://www.facebook.com/af3irmbayarea/
Keys: direct action; feminism; imperialism; women
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Name: Asylum Access
Address: 1611 Telegraph Avenue, Suite #1111
Oakland CA 94612
Voice: (510) 891-8700
Text: Believes all refugees deserve a fair chance at a new life. All over
the world, we challenge barriers that keep refugees from living
safely, moving freely, working and attending school – because when
refugees can rebuild their lives, nations thrive.
We envision a world in which refugees can live safely, move freely,
attend school, work and rebuild their lives. We believe that when
refugees enjoy their human rights, they can access effective, lasting
solutions.
To achieve this vision, our mission is to make human rights a reality
for refugees. We focus on Africa, Asia and Latin America because most
of the world’s refugees remain in these regions.
Email: info@asylumaccess.org
Web: http://www.asylumaccess.org/
Keys: human rights; legal services; refugees
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Name: Atheist Advocates of San Francisco
Text: We are inspired by a vision of a vibrant Bay Area atheist and
freethinker movement that is tied into the national movement.
We strongly advocate activism, including rallies and speaking at
government meetings on issues of vital importance to atheists and
freethinkers. We certainly welcome atheists and freethinkers who want
to socialize at picnics and have discussions at educational meetings
without getting more active. We will continue to organize such events,
as we have done in the past, but are convinced that we must go beyond
meetings and dinners to activism in order to affect change.
Web: http://atheistadvocatesofsanfrancisco.com/
Keys: religion; science; separation of church and state
[Contact data last verified 17 Jan 2015]
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Name: Atheists of Silicon Valley
Text: We are an atheist organization founded by atheists for atheists. We
want to live religion-free lives and promote our U.S. Constitutional
right of freedom from religion. We are affiliated with American
Atheists, and are committed to:
Defending the separation of government & religion, and the civil
rights of atheists
Promoting critical thinking, with science as our basis for
knowledge
Understanding our love and compassion
Promoting respect toward all Freethinkers
Educating the public about atheists & atheism
Meeting other atheists for mutual learning and enjoyment
Web: http://www.godlessgeeks.com/
Keys: civil rights; religion; Santa Clara County; science; separation of
church and state
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Name: Attitudinal Healing Connection, Inc. (AHC)
Address: 3278 West Street (near 33rd Street)
Oakland CA 94608
Voice: (510) 652-5530
Fax: (510) 652-8233
Text: Empowers individuals to be self aware and inspired through arts,
creativity and education, making positive choices to break the cycle
of violence for themselves and their communities.
Email: info@ahc-oakland.org
Web: http://www.ahc-oakland.org
Keys: art; classes / courses; family; leadership development; mental health;
violence
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Name: Attorneys for the Rights of the Child (ARC)
Address: c/o J. Steven Svoboda, Esq.
2961 Ashby Avenue
Berkeley CA 94705
Voice: (510) 464-4530
Text: Mission is to secure equal protection for, and broaden public and
legal recognition of, children's legal and human rights to bodily
integrity and self-determination that are violated by unnecessary
genital cutting of male, female and intersex children.
By understanding the medical and psychological harm caused by
circumcision and by positioning ourselves to enforce the legal and
human rights guarantees of physical integrity and self-determination,
we can work for the best interests of children, by guaranteeing them
equal protection under the law.
Web: http://www.arclaw.org/
Keys: children; circumcision; human rights; law; lawyers
[Contact data last verified 15 Jul 2017]
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Name: Automobile Moratorium
Address: POBox 9409
Berkeley CA 94709
Voice: (510) 967-4722
Text: A grassroots organization committed to the realization of a Car-Free
Day in towns and cities across America... A day in which the streets
will be open to people, bicycles and other human powered vehicles -
but closed to private fossil-fueled transportation.
Email: moxieman@marctwang.com
Web: http://www.marctwang.org/auto.html
Keys: automobiles; ecology; transportation; urban life
[Contact data last verified 05 Apr 2015]
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Name: BADIL Resource Center for Palestinian Residency & Refugee Rights
Text: An independent, human rights non-profit organization committed to
protect and promote the rights of Palestinian refugees and internally
displaced persons. Our vision, mission, programs and relationships are
defined by our Palestinian identity and the principles of
international humanitarian and human rights law. We seek to advance
the individual and collective rights of the Palestinian people on this
basis.
Web: http://www.badil.org/
Keys: lobbying; Palestinians; refugees; researchers
[Contact data last verified 09 Apr 2017]
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Name: Baker Creek Heirloom Seeds
Text: Carries one of the largest selections of seeds from the 19th century,
including many Asian and European varieties. The company has become a
tool to promote and preserve our agricultural and culinary heritage.
They also work extensively to supply free seeds to many of the world’s
poorest countries, as well as here at home in school gardens and other
educational projects. It is their goal to educate everyone about a
better, safer food supply and fight gene-altered, Frankenfood and the
companies that support it.
Their West Coast store is the Petaluma Seed Bank, in a historic bank
building.
Web: http://www.rareseeds.com
Keys: biodiversity; gardening; seeds
[Contact data last verified 04 Dec 2014]
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Name: Bank Information Center (BiC)
Text: Partners with civil society in developing and transition countries to
influence the World Bank and other international financial
institutions (IFIs) to promote social and economic justice and
ecological sustainability. BIC is an independent, non-profit,
non-governmental organization that advocates for the protection of
rights, participation, transparency, and public accountability in the
governance and operations of the World Bank Group and regional
development banks.
Web: http://www.bankinformationcenter.org/
Keys: development; economic justice; policy; research materials;
sustainability; World Bank / IMF
[Contact data last verified 28 Jan 2017]
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Name: Baring Witness
Text: A global partnership of men and women who create words of peace with
their bodies. A project of Mow and Sow, a 501(c)(3) organization, we
manifest a continuum of global peace and environmental actions.
Baring Witness maintains the website BaringWitness.org and provides
international media contacts and communications for the global network
of the hundreds of thousands of people in our extended community.
Our mission is to promote non-violent community-based action by
educating the public through media, web, print and film venues. Our
aim is to create a peace-based culture of partnership between men and
women, without blame.
Web: http://www.baringwitness.org/
Keys: nudism; peace; photography; women
[Contact data last verified 06 Jan 2018]
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Name: Bay Area American Indians Two-Spirits (BAAITS)
Address: SF LGBT Center
1800 Market Street, Box 95
San Francisco CA 94102-6227
Text: A community-based volunteer organization offering culturally relevant
activities for Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender and Intersex Native
Americans, their families and friends. Two-Spirit refers to the
commonly shared notion among many Native American tribes that some
individuals naturally possessed and manifested both a masculine and
feminine spiritual qualities. American society commonly identifies
Two-Spirit People as Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual or Transgender.
Web: http://www.baaits.org
Keys: cultural survival; Native Americans; networking; sexual minorities;
spirituality
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Name: Bay Area Animal Rights Network (BAARN)
Text: A network of animal advocates and organizations within the San
Francisco Bay Area working on behalf of animals and animal rights.
BAARN activists may be concerned with factory farming, vivisection and
animal research/testing, animals used for their fur, circuses, rodeos,
pet issues, promoting vegetarianism/veganism, and more.
Web: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/baarn/
Keys: animal liberation; calendars; networking
[Contact data last verified 25 Apr 2015]
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Name: Bay Area Association of Disabled Sailors (BAADS)
Address: Pier 40, The Embarcadero
San Francisco CA 94107
Voice: (415) 281-0212
Text: Seeks to make all aspects of sailing accessible. To fulfill this
mission, we offer weekly dinghy sailing, keelboat sailing, and
Veterans sailing out of South Beach Marina, adjacent to AT&T Park. In
addition to our weekly sailing programs, BAADS hosts and participates
in a variety of regattas and informal races both locally and
internationally.
Web: http://www.baads.org
Keys: disabilities; sports; water
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Name: Bay Area Barns and Trails
Address: POBox 2435
Mill Valley CA 94942-2435
Voice: (415) 457-1940
Text: Assists landowners and land managers with preservation and maintenance
of publicly accessible barns, stables, pastures, staging areas, horse
camps, and trails throughout Alameda, Contra Costa, Marin, Napa, San
Mateo, San Francisco, Santa Clara, Solano, and Sonoma Counties.
Email: babtt@sonic.net
Web: http://bayareabarnsandtrails.com
Keys: camping; conservation; land trusts; Marin County; rural life; trails
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Name: Bay Area Bisexual Network (BABN)
Text: Based in San Francisco with members from all over the Bay Area. Our
mission is to develop a healthy, vibrant, multicultural bisexual
community in the San Francisco Bay Area and to promote better
understanding of bisexual lives and issues within the larger lesbian,
gay, bisexual, transgender, queer (LGBTQ) community and the public.
We currently support monthly Brunches for the Bi and Trans
Communities, an informational web site, and email lists for event
announcements and discussion of regional bi+ issues.
Web: http://www.bayareabisexualnetwork.org
Keys: bisexuals; email mailing lists; networking; sexual minorities
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Name: Bay Area Center for Nonviolent Communication (BayNVC)
Address: POBox 22872
Oakland CA 94609
Voice: (510) 433-0700
Fax: (510) 452-3900
Text: BayNVC is home to a number of projects and groups working under the
same umbrella to apply and promote the principles and practices of
Nonviolent Communication. Most of these are operated and run by BayNVC
staff and trainers and include private sessions, classes,
organizational services, retreats, and a variety of projects designed
for social transformation. In addition, BayNVC provides fiscal
sponsorship and financial services to other relevant projects by
request.
Email: nvc@baynvc.org
Web: http://www.baynvc.org/
http://www.cnvc.org
Keys: classes / courses; nonviolence
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Name: Bay Area Coalition for Headwaters Forest (BACH)
Address: 2530 San Pablo Avenue
Berkeley CA 94702
Voice: (510) 548-3113
Text: Mission is to educate and build support in the Bay Area for the
preservation of biologically viable redwood and other forests, and to
provide links to rural grassroots organizations and campaigns in
Northern California. BACH connects local environmentalists with forest
activists to strengthen campaigns to preserve old growth native
ecosystems, with real solutions for forest workers and communities.
Email: bach[at]headwaterspreserve[dot]org
Web: http://www.headwaterspreserve.org
Keys: deforestation; direct action; endangered species / habitat
[Contact data last verified 17 Apr 2016]
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Name: Bay Area Community Exchange (BACE Timebank)
Text: With BACE Timebank, the currency is time, and everyone's time is
equal.
For every hour you spend doing something for someone in your
community, you earn one hour to use to have someone do something for
you. It is an alternative way to give and receive resources. It's that
simple.
Timebanks have been helping to rebuild the informal, village economy
for over twenty years. There are now over 300 communities in 22
countries that are using this (pay it forward) system to help their
communities grow and thrive.
Web: http://timebank.sfbace.org/
Keys: barter; blogs; cooperative living; local economy; networking
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Name: Bay Area Crisis Nursery
Address: 1506 Mendocino Drive
Concord CA 94521
Voice: (925) 685-8052
Text: Free residential childcare (1 to 30 days) for families in crisis or
parents just needing a break (respite). Children must be aged zero to
11 years. No other restrictions such as family location or financial
means.
Web: http://www.bayareacrisisnursery.org/
Keys: childcare; family; services
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Name: Bay Area Fair Trade Coalition
Text: An all volunteer group of students, community leaders, business
leaders and people of faith to raise awareness and build demand for
fair trade products here in the Bay Area.
Through our community outreach events, retail canvasses and product
giveaways, we work to increase awareness of the benefits of fair trade
for farmers and workers in the developing world.
Web: http://bayareafairtradecoalition.blogspot.com/
Keys: coalitions; fair trade
[Contact data last verified 15 Jul 2017]
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Name: Bay Area Friends of Tibet (BAFoT)
Address: 1310 Fillmore Street, Suite 401
San Francisco CA 94115
Voice: (415) 409-6353
Text: Mission is to study, promote interest in, and actively preserve
Tibetan culture in all its aspects; to educate the general public in
matters pertaining to Tibet and the Tibetan people; and to provide
assistance to Tibetans.
Email: bafot@friends-of-tibet.org
Web: http://www.friends-of-tibet.org
Keys: human rights; support groups; Tibet
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Name: Bay Area Girls Rock Camp (BAGRC)
Address: POBox 72213
Oakland CA 94612
Voice: (510) 267-1808
Text: Empowers girls through music, promoting an environment that fosters
self-confidence, creativity and teamwork. Although our camp centers
the experiences of young women, we are committed to gender justice and
creating an inclusive environment that supports a wide range of
marginalized gender identities and expressions.
BAGRC challenges gender stereotypes, encourages collaboration and
tolerance among peers, and provides a comfortable space for people of
all backgrounds to express themselves. Through music lessons,
workshops, group activities, and performances, girls acquire skills
that help guide them throughout their lives.
Web: http://www.bayareagirlsrockcamp.org
Keys: camping; children; mentoring; music; youth
[Contact data last verified 15 Jul 2017]
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Name: Bay Area Green Business Program
Text: Verifies that businesses meet our higher standards of environmental
performance. Our partnership of government agencies and utilities
helps local businesses comply with environmental regulations and take
additional actions to conserve resources, prevent pollution, minimize
waste, and reduce their carbon footprint. We offer businesses and
agencies an easy-to-use framework for improving environmental
performance. More than 2,300 businesses and public agencies have been
certified since 1996.
Web: http://www.greenbiz.ca.gov/
Keys: business; conservation; pollution
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Name: Bay Area Green Tours
Address: 339 15th Street, #208
Oakland CA 94612
Voice: (510) 704-0379
Text: We provide educational tours and events that demonstrate the
sustainable economy in action, inspire support of local green
businesses, and empower people to incorporate environmental
responsibility and social justice into their personal and professional
lives.
Serves as a conduit to solutions for a more sustainable future and a
bridge from the past to all new possibilities.The fundamental idea of
Bay Area Green Tours arose from a fourth grade field trip to a waste
water treatment plant in New York City which our Founding Executive
Director, Marissa LaMagna, attended. She couldn’t help but wonder:
“Where does all the waste go”?
Email: info@bayareagreentours.org
Web: http://www.bayareagreentours.org/
Keys: business; economics; sustainability; travel
[Contact data last verified 27 May 2017]
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Name: Bay Area Intactivists
Text: A human rights organization comprised of community members who are
working to end forced genital modification. Our mission is to defend
the human right to genital integrity and to ensure that the genital
autonomy of every individual is respected without discrimination based
on sex, age, ethnicity, religious beliefs, disability, gender
identity, or sexual orientation. We oppose all forms of unnecessary
genital modification such as non-therapeutic circumcision and genital
"normalizing" surgery when performed on individuals who are unable to
provide informed consent.
Web: http://www.bayareaintactivists.org
Keys: circumcision; human rights; policy
[Contact data last verified 14 May 2016]
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Name: Bay Area Iranian American Democrats (BAIAD)
Voice: (415) 315-9959
Text: A grassroots political organization that stands for protecting the
rights and interests of Iranian-Americans by empowering the
Iranian-American political voice. BAIAD seeks to promote progressive
values such as social justice, responsibility and fairness through
education, political participation, public and political advocacy, and
grassroots activism.
A 100% volunteer-based organization that was founded in June 2004 on
the basic principle that the time has come for Iranian Americans to
develop a powerful political voice and influence by becoming active
and responsible participants of American democracy.
Email: info1-at-baiad.org
Web: http://www.baiad.org/
Keys: Iranian Americans
[Contact data last verified 11 Oct 2015]
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Name: Bay Area Labor Heritage Rockin' Solidarity Chorus
Voice: (415) 648-3457
Text: Based in the San Francisco Bay Area and is made up of workers from
many unions, as well as students and independent folks who love to
sing. We are dedicated to building more democracy and representation
within our unions and we come together to celebrate our love of music
and workers’ culture.
Email: wynnegilbert@igc.org
Web: http://laborchorus.com/
Keys: diversity; labor; music; solidarity
[Contact data last verified 25 Apr 2015]
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Name: Bay Area Legal Aid (BayLegal)
Address: 1735 Telegraph Avenue
Oakland CA 94612
Voice: (510) 663-4755
Text: Mission is to provide meaningful access to the civil justice system
through quality legal assistance regardless of a client’s location,
language or disability.
We provide low-income clients with free civil legal assistance,
including legal advice and counsel, effective referrals, and legal
representation. We are the largest civil legal aid provider serving
seven Bay Area counties:
Alameda, Contra Costa, Marin, Napa, San Francisco, San Mateo, and
Santa Clara.
Web: http://baylegal.org/
Keys: consumer protection; discrimination; domestic violence; healthcare
access; housing; legal services; low-income; tenant rights; welfare
[Contact data last verified 07 Oct 2017]
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Name: Bay Area Legal Aid, Contra Costa County
Address: 1025 Macdonald Avenue
Richmond CA 94801
Voice: (510) 233-9954
Fax: (510) 236-6846
Text: See description at Bay Area Legal Aid, Alameda County.
Web: http://www.baylegal.org
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Name: Bay Area Legal Aid, Marin County
Address: 30 North San Pedro Road
San Rafael CA 94903
Voice: (415) 479-8224
Fax: (415) 479-8549
Text: See description at Bay Area Legal Aid, Alameda County.
Web: http://www.baylegal.org
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Name: Bay Area Legal Aid, San Francisco County
Address: 1035 Market Street, 6th Floor
San Francisco CA 94103
Voice: (415) 982-1300
Fax: (415) 982-4243
Text: See description at Bay Area Legal Aid, Alameda County.
Web: http://www.baylegal.org
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Name: Bay Area Legal Aid, San Mateo County
Address: 1048 El Camino Real, Suite A
Redwood City CA 94063
Voice: (650) 358-0745
Fax: (650) 358-0751
Text: See description at Bay Area Legal Aid, Alameda County.
Web: http://www.baylegal.org
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Name: Bay Area Legal Aid, Santa Clara County
Address: 2 West Santa Clara Street, 8th Floor
San Jose CA 95113
Voice: (408) 283-3700
Fax: (408) 283-3750
Text: See description at Bay Area Legal Aid, Alameda County.
Web: http://www.baylegal.org
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Name: Bay Area Literacy (BALIT)
Text: Serves adults in the Bay Area who choose to improve their reading and
writing skills. BALit’s 24 member programs are located in libraries
from Marin County to Santa Clara County. Each year these programs
serve some 6,500 adults, helping them to achieve their goals and
expand their opportunities.
Library-based literacy programs offer free, individualized and
confidential tutoring with trained volunteer tutors from the
community. Learners gain the skills they need to read to their
children, complete job applications, pass the driver’s test, write a
birthday card and achieve whatever goals they have set for themselves.
Tutors are amazed by what they learn from their partners.
Web: http://www.balit.org
Keys: classes / courses; computers; libraries; literacy; mentoring;
volunteer matching; writing
[Contact data last verified 15 Jul 2017]
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Name: Bay Area Naturists
Address: POBox 23781
San Jose CA 95153-3781
Text: A loosely-knit collection of people in the San Francisco and Monterey
Bay areas who believe in the principles below:
We believe that the human species must live in harmony with itself and
the other species which populate Planet Earth. We acknowledge our
responsibility to preserve the delicate environment with which we are
entrusted for the benefit of our fellow humans and all species.
We believe in the fundamental wholesomeness of the human body, and
regard it as neither an object of shame nor a subject for degrading
exploitation. We believe that our natural state is to be without
clothing, and that the choice to be clothed or not should be at the
option of each individual.
We believe that these two concepts are intertwined, and that awareness
of this is enhanced by intimate contact between the human being and
the environment. To that end, we advocate the acceptance of suitable
areas for nude recreation.
Web: http://www.bayareanaturists.org/
Keys: nudism
[Contact data last verified 06 Apr 2018]
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Name: Bay Area Outreach and Recreation Program (BORP)
Address: 3075 Adeline Street, Suite 200
Berkeley CA 94703-2578
Voice: (510) 849-4663
Fax: (510) 849-4616
Text: Works to improve the health, independence and social integration of
people with physical disabilities through sports, fitness and
recreation programs. At BORP, we believe that sports and recreation
provide a path to greater achievement to which all people should have
access, and we continually strive to make this a reality.
Email: info@borp.org
Web: http://www.borp.org
Keys: disabilities; outdoor activity; sports
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Name: Bay Area Reporter (BAR)
Address: 44 Gough Street #204
San Francisco CA 94103
Voice: (415) 861-5019
Text: The nation's oldest and highest circulation LGBT news weekly serving
San Francisco's lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender communities.
Founded in 1971, B.A.R. is regarded for its original writing covering
news and entertainment relevant to our lives. B.A.R. is published
every Thursday by BAR Media Inc., and is distributed in San Francisco
and surrounding cities of the Bay Area.
Email: news@ebar.com
Web: http://www.ebar.com/
Keys: newspapers; sexual minorities
[Contact data last verified 06 Jan 2018]
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Name: Bay Area Seed Interchange Library (BASIL)
Text: A library of vegetable, herb, and flower seeds freely available to the
public. Patrons check out seeds, grow them, let some plants go to so
seed, then return those seeds to the library to share with other
gardeners. We are located at the Berkeley Ecology Center.
Email: basil@ecologycenter.org
Web: http://www.ecologycenter.org/basil
Keys: biodiversity; classes / courses; libraries; seeds
[Contact data last verified 12 Apr 2015]
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Name: Bay Area United Against War Newsletter (BAUAW)
Text: Anti-war news from Bay Area United Against War, an activist-oriented
newsletter based in San Francisco, CA.
Web: http://www.bauaw.org
Keys: civil liberties; coalitions; demonstrations; human rights; Iraq;
militarism; newsletters; peace; unity
[Contact data last verified 11 Oct 2015]
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Name: Bay Area Vegetarians (BAVeg)
Text: A grassroots, all-volunteer organization dedicated to supporting and
promoting a compassionate, vegan lifestyle through our
calendar/newsletter covering the 9 countines within the San Francisco
Bay Area (Alameda, Contra Costa, Marin, Napa, San Francisco, San
Mateo, Santa Clara, Solano and Sonoma). We also offer an online guide
to vegan and vegetarian restaurants and services, and the email
discussion list SFBAVeg. Volunteers welcome.
Web: http://bayareaveg.org
Keys: animal liberation; calendars; directories; health; newsletters;
veganism / vegetarianism
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Name: Bay Area Video Coalition (BAVC)
Address: 2727 Mariposa Street, Second Floor (at Bryant)
San Francisco CA 94110
Voice: (415) 861-3282
Fax: (415) 861-4316
Text: A community hub and resource for media makers in the Bay Area and
across the country, serving over 7,500 freelancers, filmmakers,
job-seekers, activists, and artists every year. BAVC provides access
to media making technology, storytelling workshops, a diverse and
engaged community of makers and producers, services and resources.
BAVC advocates for those whose stories aren't being told, and provides
the resources for anyone to create and share, and amplify their
stories and those of their communities. BAVC's diverse, innovative
programs lead the field in media training for youth and educators,
technology and multimedia focused workforce development,
visually-driven new media storytelling and audio-visual preservation.
Email: info@bavc.org
Web: http://www.bavc.org
Keys: art; coalitions; film / video; media; technical assistance
[Contact data last verified 16 Jul 2016]
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Name: Bay Area Wilderness Training (BAWT)
Address: 1050 East 8th Street
Oakland CA 94606
Voice: (510) 452-BAWT (2298)
Text: Founded with the idea that California’s bountiful wilderness areas are
a vast – yet untapped – resource for local youth-serving
organizations. BAWT promotes the wise use of these national, state and
regional parks through our professional wilderness leadership
training. Then, we connect the teachers and youth workers to our
outdoor gear libraries. That way, youth organizations and schools may
outfit their groups for trips of their own – free of charge!
We believe that well led trips to granite cliffs, isolated beaches and
ancient redwoods provide youth with powerful, life changing
experiences.
Email: info@bawt.org
Web: http://www.bawt.org
Keys: classes / courses; leadership development; libraries; outdoor
activity; urban life; wilderness; youth
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Name: Bay Area Women Against Rape (BAWAR)
Address: 470 27th Street
Oakland CA 94612
Voice: (510) 430-1298 (office)
(510) 845-7273 (24-hour crisis line)
Fax: (510) 430-2579
Text: From its beginnings in 1971, BAWAR has addressed the problem of sexual
assault with two basic goals: 1) to establish a place where rape and
incest survivors could receive the quality counseling and advocacy
they need, and 2) to provide community education regarding sexual
assault issues.
Email: bawar@bawar.org
Web: http://www.bawar.org/
Keys: counseling; hospitals; rape; support groups; women
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Name: Bay Area Women in Black
Text: Jews and allies in the United States who stand against militaristic
and fundamentalist leadership in all countries, including our own. We
are committed to nonviolent resistance against injustice, believing
that all people have the right to security, home, education, justice
and freedom. We are part of the international movement of Women in
Black, a transnational network of feminist activists which includes
women of many ethnic and national backgrounds who cooperate across
these and other differences. Our international solidarity is an
expression of the political decision to attempt to create a moral and
ethical way to live our interconnected lives.
Web: http://www.bayareawomeninblack.org
Keys: feminism; Jews; militarism; nonviolence; solidarity; women
[Contact data last verified 06 Apr 2018]
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Name: Bay Bucks
Address: 2323 Broadway
Oakland CA 94612
Voice: (650) 488-3962
Text: Mission is to create a functioning regional currency that helps local
businesses thrive while promoting collaboration and building community
wealth.
We envision a greater Bay Area where sustainable, regional economic
growth and development are in service of the people and the
environment, rather than corporate profits. We envision an economy
that promotes stewardship of our land and local resources, supports
local business and innovation, drives re-localization of production,
and recreates the market from being merely transactional to a place
for community building.
Email: support@baybucks.com
Web: http://www.baybucks.com
Keys: barter; economics; local currencies
[Contact data last verified 06 Jan 2018]
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Name: Bay Institute, The
Address: Pier 39
The Embarcadero & Beach Street
San Francisco CA 94133
Voice: (415) 623-5300
Text: The science, research, environmental policy, and advocacy arm of the
Bay Ecotarium. Working in centers of political and economic power,
from Sacramento to Los Angeles to Washington DC, the Bay Institute
advocates for the environmental, water management, and economic
policies necessary to ensure the health of the greater San Francisco
Bay.
Email: info@bayecotarium.org
Web: http://www.bay.org
Keys: bay / delta environment; endangered species / habitat; Marin County;
water; watersheds; wildlife
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Name: Bay Nature Institute
Address: 1328 Sixth Street, Suite 2
Berkeley CA 94710
Voice: (510) 528-8550
Fax: (510) 528-8117
Text: Dedicated to educating the people of the San Francisco Bay Area about,
and celebrating the beauty of, the surrounding natural world. We do so
with the aim of inspiring residents to explore and preserve the
diverse and unique natural heritage of the region, and of nurturing
productive relationships among the many organizations and individuals
working towards these same goals.
Email: baynature@baynature.org
Web: http://www.baynature.org
Keys: conservation; history; magazines; outdoor activity
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Name: Bay Rising
Text: A burgeoning network of high-impact community-led organizations that
are building collaborative infrastructure to advance equity at the
regional level through coordinated civic engagement and public policy
change efforts. Bay Rising represents a regional expansion of a model
that has been successfully piloted at the local level by Oakland
Rising and San Francisco Rising. Working Partnerships USA who is
focusing their work in the San Jose area is an additional steering
committee member.
Web: https://bayrising.org/
Keys: coalitions; elections; networking; people of color; policy
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Name: Bay Trail
Text: A planned 500-mile walking and cycling path around the entire San
Francisco Bay running through all nine Bay Area counties, 47 cities,
and across seven toll bridges. With over 350 miles in place, the Bay
Trail connects communities to parks, open spaces, schools, transit and
to each other, and also provides a great alternative commute corridor.
The ultimate goal of the Bay Trail is to build a continuous shoreline
bicycle and pedestrian path for all to enjoy.
Web: http://www.baytrail.org
Keys: cycling; hiking; outdoor activity; trails
[Contact data last verified 06 Jan 2018]
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Name: BAY-Peace: Better Alternatives for Youth
Voice: (510) 863-1737
Text: Supports and empowers Bay Area youth to transform militarism and other
forms of violence through youth organizing and artistic resistance. We
offer a wholistic youth leadership program that integrates vocational
development, artistic expression, socio-political education, community
organizing, healing and personal transformation.
Email: baypeace@baypeace.org
Web: http://www.baypeace.org
Keys: education; employment; leadership development; militarism; racism;
students; violence; youth
[Contact data last verified 16 Jul 2016]
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Name: BayRail Alliance
Address: 3921 East Bayshore Road
Palo Alto CA 94303
Text: A non-profit, 501(c)4 organization founded in 1983. For more than 20
years, we have advocated for improvements to rail public transit in
the San Francisco Bay Area that will efficiently produce a quantum
leap in their quality and convenience. Our mission is to build public
awareness of and support for these plans, so as to improve our
environment and quality of life.
We’re interested in rail’s current and future potential to help the
Bay Area reduce its dependence on automobiles, stop climate change and
improve air quality, and for many other benefits.
Web: http://www.bayrailalliance.org
Keys: air; automobiles; climate change; coalitions; municipal government;
transportation
[Contact data last verified 16 Jan 2016]
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Name: BayVajra.info
Text: A guide to San Francisco Bay Area Tibetan Buddhism, with a list of
selected events and a directory of organizations.
Web: http://bayvajra.info/
Keys: calendars; directories; human rights; religion; Tibet
[Contact data last verified 12 Apr 2015]
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Name: Bayview Hunter's Point Center for Arts & Technology (BAYCAT)
Address: 2415 Third Street, Suite 230
San Francisco CA 94107
Voice: (415) 701-8CAT (8228)
Text: The Digital Divide is not news anymore. But it continues to grow and
evolve.
Many young people in the Bay Area’s underserved neighborhoods are
being left behind. They are not equipped to build a future in the
digital creative field.
That’s what BAYCAT is changing.
Through education, employment and entertainment in digital media, we
empower underserved youth and young adults, helping them find their
place in the world.
Web: http://www.baycat.org/
Keys: art; education; technology; youth
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Name: Bee Holistic Cat Rescue and Care
Voice: (510) 237-1190
Text: The only holistically oriented animal rescue in the San Francisco bay
area. We offer services including rescue, hospice, rehabilitation,
counseling, and adoption. We also do "TNRC" (trap, neuter, return,
care for) free-living cats in established colonies.
We believe that cats need and deserve outdoor access: Hunting!
Tree-sitting! Being part of the great web of life!
We use therapeutic modalities such as homeopathy, acupuncture, flower
essences, and chiropractic care, and we work with intuitive
communicators. We feed only raw organic food (yes, they ALL eat it!)
Our cats thrive, physically and emotionally, under our care.
Located in Richmond Hills.
Email: Cynthia@BeeHolistic.com
Web: http://www.BeeHolistic.com
Keys: animal liberation; animal shelters and adoption; Contra Costa County
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Name: Ben Lomond Quaker Center
Address: POBox 686
Ben Lomond CA 95005
Voice: (831) 336-8333
Fax: (831) 336-0218
Text: A self-service conference and retreat center in northern California
that offers simple, modestly priced, comfortable accommodations. We
are located on 80 acres of redwood forest, an hour and a half south of
San Francisco and 25 minutes outside of Santa Cruz.
Email: mail(at)quakercenter.org
Web: http://www.quakercenter.org/
Keys: ecology; low-income; outdoor activity; retreats; spaces for events;
spirituality
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Name: berberworld.com
Text: A web site covering the Berber (Amazigh) people and culture. Berbers
are the indigenous people of Northern Africa (Tamazgha), and continue
to comprise a substantial portion of the population of Morocco and
Algeria and elsewhere, yet their culture and language (Tamazight) are
being actively repressed.
Web: http://www.mondeberbere.com/
Keys: Africa; Berbers; cultural survival; indigenous people
[Contact data last verified 17 Jan 2015]
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Name: Berkeley Animal Rights Center (ARC)
Address: 2425 Channing Way, Suite C
Berkeley CA 94704
Voice: (510) 984-0865
Text: A community center organizing community events and trainings for
animal rights and social justice advocates. It functions as a vegan
store, office space, meeting location, art gallery and more!
We host community events to build and sustain a strong and effective
movement for animals. We work to transform Berkeley (and the world)
such that every animal is safe, happy and free. We offer trainings,
lectures, and discussions for new and veteran activists.
Email: info@berkeleyarc.com
Web: http://www.berkeleyarc.com/
Keys: animal liberation; classes / courses; veganism / vegetarianism
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Name: Berkeley Climate Action Coalition (BCAC)
Voice: (510) 548-2220 x 240
Text: A strong and growing network of local organizations and community
members joining together to help implement the City of Berkeley’s
ambitious, forty-year Climate Action Plan. We include residents,
non-profits, the City of Berkeley, neighborhood groups, faith based
organizations, schools, businesses, UC Berkeley, and others!
The BCAC initiates projects that address climate change on a wide
variety of issues — energy, water, food, waste, the built environment,
and transit. We are working toward a future that includes clean air
and water, energy efficient housing, and food, energy and
transportation that is local, affordable, accessible and safe.
Email: rebecca@ecologycenter.org
Web: http://ecologycenter.org/climatecoalition/
Keys: air; climate change; coalitions; energy; food; municipal government;
transportation; waste; water
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Name: Berkeley Community Gardening Collaborative (BCGC)
Address: c/o Ecology Center
2530 San Pablo Ave, Suite H
Berkeley CA 94702
Voice: (510) 883-9096
Text: BCGC is composed of diverse community garden members who share a
common commitment to organic, urban agriculture and access to healthy
food for all residents of Berkeley.
By providing a forum for mutual support and the sharing of common
resources, BCGC assists and protects existing gardens, facilitates the
formation of new gardens, and advocates food security initiatives in
our local schools and city.
Web: http://ecologycenter.org/bcgc
Keys: community-building; food security; gardening; sharing; urban life
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Name: Berkeley Community Media (BCM)
Address: 2239 Martin Luther King Jr. Way (between Bancroft and Allston)
Berkeley CA 94704
Voice: (510) 848-2288
Text: A media production haven for auteur and experienced filmmakers,
television producers and students of all forms of life! We are a
P.E.G. access television media center living right in the heart of
Berkeley, California! BCM's primary goal is to provide residents of
Berkeley and beyond a space to learn how to produce media as well as
share it with their community! Our television channels are on the air
24 hours a day, seven days a week, cablecasting voices from all over
the San Francisco Bay Area! Look for us on B-TV Channels 28 & 33 on
Comcast Cable in Berkeley, and on Channel 99 via AT&T U-Verse, and on
the web: WWW.BCMTV.ORG
Email: admin@bcmtv.org
Web: http://www.betv.org/
Keys: classes / courses; community-building; film / video; free speech;
media; television
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Name: Berkeley Daily Planet
Address: POBox 5534
Berkeley CA 94705
Voice: (510) 845-8440
Text: An online newspaper covering Berkeley, California.
Web: http://www.berkeleydailyplanet.com
Keys: calendars; newspapers
[Contact data last verified 17 Jan 2015]
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Name: Berkeley Federation of Teachers (AFT Local #1078, AFL-CIO)
Address: 1432 University Avenue
Berkeley CA 94702-1509.
Voice: (510) 549-2307
Text: The BFT is made up of 800 teachers (K-12, Adult School, and Child
Development), counselors, substitutes, school psychologists, Adaptive
PE teachers, librarians and speech pathologists serving Berkeley
public school students.
Founded in 1950, the BFT works vigorously to improve working
conditions for its members, and learning conditions for students. We
believe that a strong union is good for the community, and for its
children. Research continues to show that teacher quality is the most
important factor in student achievement. The BFT strives to create
working conditions that will attract and retain excellent teachers in
Berkeley.
Email: bft4tchr@lmi.net
Web: http://berkeleyteachers.org/
Keys: labor union locals; public education
[Contact data last verified 15 Sep 2017]
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Name: Berkeley Fellowship of Unitarian Universalists (BFUU)
Address: 1606 Bonita Avenue
Berkeley CA 94709-2022
Voice: (510) 841-4824
Text: A dynamic Unitarian Universalist congregation that plays an important
role as a progressive spiritual community in the heart of Berkeley.
The Fellowship enriches the life of the surrounding community as a
much-used and much-loved venue for social justice and cultural
programs.
Email: office@bfuu.org
Web: http://www.bfuu.org
Keys: death penalty; ecology; economic justice; peace; religion; sexual
minorities; spaces for events; spirituality
[Contact data last verified 06 Jan 2018]
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Name: Berkeley Food and Housing Project (BFHP)
Address: 1901 Fairview Street
Berkeley CA 94703
Voice: (510) 649-4965
Text: Provides a comprehensive range of housing, food, and support services
to help those in need move from homelessness into a safe and
affordable home of their own. We accomplish our work in partnership
with the City of Berkeley, other government agencies, and a robust
network of local service providers. Our many volunteers offer their
time, energy and talents. Vital financial support is derived from a
mix of public funding, individual giving, private foundations and
corporate charitable contributions. BFHP is a 501(c)(3) non-profit
organization.
Email: info@bfhp.org
Web: http://www.bfhp.org
Keys: homelessness; services
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Name: Berkeley Food Network (BFN)
Address: 1569 Solano Avenue, #243
Berkeley CA 94707
Text: Comprised of Berkeley agencies and individuals that provide services
to neighbors in our community who are struggling with food insecurity.
BFN’s primary objectives are to:
Coordinate network-level services to fill gaps in access to food in
Berkeley
Conduct research to better understand our community’s needs; and
Promote awareness about food insecurity and pursue advocacy in
Berkeley.
Email: info@berkeleyfoodnetwork.org
Web: http://berkeleyfoodnetwork.org/
Keys: food; food banks; hunger; networking; researchers; services
[Contact data last verified 05 Mar 2018]
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Name: Berkeley Food Pantry
Address: 1600 Sacramento Street
Berkeley CA 94702
Voice: (510) 525-2280
Text: A non-profit organization providing monthly bags of nutritious and
delicious emergency groceries to Berkeley and Albany residents in
need. Through the combined efforts of two paid part-time staff, a core
of 50 dedicated volunteers, the Alameda County Community Food Bank,
community members, local businesses, and the USDA Emergency Food
Assistance Program, we are able to provide enough emergency groceries
for 3 days or 9 meals to over 2,000 Berkeley and Albany residents
monthly. The Berkeley Food Pantry operates under the fiscal
sponsorship of the Berkeley Friends Church, a 501(c)(3) charitable
organizstion and is governed by the church's Peace, Environment, and
Christian Social Concerns Committee.
Email: info@berkeleyfoodpantry.org
Web: http://www.berkeleyfoodpantry.org/
Keys: food banks
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Name: Berkeley Free Clinic
Address: 2339 Durant Avenue (between Dana and Ellsworth)
Berkeley CA 94704
Voice: (510) 548-2570
(800) 6-CLINIC
Fax: (510) 548-1730
Text: Founded in 1969 as a "street medicine" clinic that quickly found a
niche and a permanent home in the Berkeley community. It has become an
icon in the area, and has served countless thousands in a variety of
ways during its 40-year history.
Fees have never been charged for any services, materials, medications
or supplies provided at the Berkeley Free Clinic. Income has been
generated solely via individual or organizational donations and
government programs.
An emphasis on education, self-knowledge and an increasing awareness
of appropriate resources infuses all of our medical, dental,
counseling, and information/referral services.
Email: info@berkeleyfreeclinic.org
Web: http://www.berkeleyfreeclinic.org
Keys: AIDS / HIV; collectives; counseling; health; services
[Contact data last verified 17 Jan 2015]
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Name: Berkeley Healthy Child Initiative
Text: This is the story of how Berkeley took on Big Soda - and won.
Berkeley's soda tax passed in a landslide in November 2014. This was a victory
for health, for communities of color and their kids, and for
people-powered democracy against one of the biggest global industries
- Big Soda.
Berkeley’s soda tax is a penny-per-ounce tax paid by distributors of
sugary drinks, like soda, energy drinks, and sugary coffee syrups. The
soda tax established a panel of health experts to advise Berkeley’s
City Council on how to use the tax money to support programs to reduce
sugary drink consumption and improve children's health.
Email: info@berkeleyvsbigsoda.com
Web: berkeleyvsbigsoda.com
Keys: children; coalitions; health; initiatives; municipal government;
petitions; taxes
[Contact data last verified 07 Oct 2017]
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Name: Berkeley Information Network (The BIN)
Address: c/o Berkeley Public Library
2090 Kittredge Street (at Shattuck)
Berkeley CA 94704
Voice: (510) 981-6150
Text: A database of community resources: local organizations, agencies,
services, non profits, clubs, in and around Berkeley. It also includes
information on museums, disabled services, low-cost legal aid,
recycling, schools, emergency dental referrals, parks, summer camps,
senior resources, job lines, consumer groups and more.
Email: bin@cityofberkeley.info
Web: https://bancroft.berkeley-public.org/databases/bplbin/
Keys: community-building; directories; libraries; networking
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Name: Berkeley Neighborhood Food Project
Voice: (510) 525-2280
Text: A revolutionary new way to collect food: It's a donor drive, not a
food drive.
Instead of asking for one-time contributions of food, our volunteers
(Neighborhood Coordinators) enlist their neighbors to become long-term
Food Donors.
Neighbors give a bag of food every two months. It's incredibly easy,
because we supply the bag…and we pick up the food! This provides food
pantries with a steady, year-round supply of food…and provides donors
with the ongoing satisfaction of making a real difference. People also
get to know their neighbors, which builds a powerful sense of
community. So everyone wins.
Email: info@berkeleyfoodproject.org
Web: http://www.berkeleyfoodproject.org/
Keys: food; neighborhoods
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Name: Berkeley Open Source Food Project (BOSF)
Text: We work on food equity, sustainability, nutrition, and gastronomy. We
focus on increasing the supply of fresh, affordable, nutritious,
drought-resistant, low-carbon-impact greens, especially in urban food
deserts. Our work includes mapping the availability and abundance of
wild and feral edible plants. We test urban soils and plants for
nutrition and toxicity. We promote urban foraging through education
and outreach, including teaching plant identification and publishing
field guides.
Web: http://forage.berkeley.edu
Keys: local food; open source / open data; urban life
[Contact data last verified 25 May 2015]
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Name: Berkeley Organization for Animal Advocacy (BOAA)
Address: c/o ASUC Office of Student Affairs, University of California
400 Eshleman Hall, MC 4500
Berkeley CA 94720-4500
Text: An ASUC-sponsored student organization on the UC Berkeley campus. We
have weekly meetings to discuss animal rights issues, our events, and
how to become better advocates for the other beings on this planet. We
are currently working on a number of campaigns, including weekly
letter writing, revising and relaunching our fight against on-campus
animal research, and raising awareness of animal rights issues among
students, faculty, and members of the local community.
Email: boaarocks@gmail.com
Web: http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~boaa/
Keys: animal liberation; science; students; vivisection
[Contact data last verified 17 Apr 2016]
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Name: Berkeley Partners for Parks (BFPF)
Address: POBox 12521
Berkeley CA 94712
Text: A citywide nonprofit organization that encourages volunteerism and
community development for parks, community gardens, natural habitat,
and open space, and recreation in our area. We help citizens form new
groups, help those groups find needed financial and volunteer
resources, provide voices of experience and help with publicity, and
serve as a 501(c)3 nonprofit fiscal sponsor, providing bookkeeping,
tax filing, insurance, and the ability to receive tax-free donations
and grants.
Web: http://www.bpfp.org
Keys: land use; open space; parks
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Name: Berkeley Path Wanderers Association (BPWA)
Address: 1442A Walnut Street, Box 269
Berkeley CA 94709
Text: A grassroots volunteer group of community members who have come
together to increase public awareness of the City of Berkeley’s
pathways. BPWA hopes to accomplish this goal through volunteer-led
path walks; identification and accurate mapping of Berkeley’s complete
path network; and eventual restoration of paths that have been blocked
or obscured. We hope the final outcome of the community effort will be
the preservation and ongoing maintenance of all the paths, lanes and
steps throughout Berkeley.
Email: info@berkeleypaths.org
Web: http://www.berkeleypaths.org/
Keys: conservation; land use; walking
[Contact data last verified 09 Oct 2016]
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Name: Berkeley Post Office Defenders (BPOD)
Text: BPOD came into existence in May of 2013, after the U.S. Postal Service
announced its “final” decision to sell the downtown Berkeley Post
Office. Members of Save The Berkeley Post Office, Strike Debt Bay Area
and Occupy Oakland came together to form an independent committee to
plan for and execute an encampment/outside occupation of the downtown
Berkeley Post Office.
On July 26th, a little more than a week after the Postal Service
rejected Berkeley’s appeal of the sale, tents and information tables
went up at 2000 Allston Way. They remained for thirty-three days, not
without considerable controversy, getting worldwide attention and
sending a clear signal of resistance to Postal Service management.
Web: http://berkeleypostofficedefenders.wordpress.com/
Keys: privatization
[Contact data last verified 07 Oct 2017]
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Name: Berkeley Progressive Alliance
Address: POBox 2961
Berkeley CA 94702
Text: Works at the local level to address the challenges of global climate
change and growing economic inequality. We stand for open,
transparent, and fair governance, social and economic justice and an
inclusive, diverse city.
Our Progressive Agenda: We will work to elect progressive candidates
to local office and to develop and enact a progressive agenda for
Berkeley.
Formed to support the election of a progressive Mayor and City Council
in the November 2016 election and to promote progressive policies.
Many in Berkeley find that their voices are being ignored and that a
grassroots response is needed.
Email: berkeleyprogressivealliance@gmail.com
Web: https://berkeleyprogressivealliance.org/
Keys: climate change; coalitions; diversity; economic justice; elections;
municipal government
[Contact data last verified 17 Apr 2016]
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Name: Berkeley Student Food Collective (BSFC)
Address: 2440 Bancroft Way, Suite 102
Berkeley CA 94704
Voice: (510) 845-1985
Text: Works to provide healthy, sustainable, and affordable food for the
East Bay community. Through our volunteer-run grocery collective, we
operate as a local hub for both leadership development and
food-related education for our members.
Web: https://www.facebook.com/foodcollective
Keys: collectives; cooperatives; food; students; sustainability
[Contact data last verified 09 Apr 2017]
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Name: Berkeley Women in Black
Voice: (510) 548-6310
Text: We stand each Friday from noon to 1 PM at the south side of UC
Berkeley campus, at Bancroft and Telegraph, to protest the brutal
Israeli Occupation of Palestine. We are a non-hierarchical group. At
the present time three men join us every Friday. We create new flyers
about the situation on the ground and also distribute map cards
(showing Palestinian taken land) and other material to inform people.
We work for the human rights of the people of Palestine.
Join us when you can.
Email: wibberkeley@yahoo.com
Keys: human rights; military occupation; Palestinians; vigils; women
[Contact data last verified 15 Aug 2015]
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Name: Berkeley Youth Alternatives (BYA)
Address: 1255 Allston Way (at Bonar)
Berkeley CA 94702
Voice: (510) 845-9010
Fax: (510) 849-1421
Text: A community based organization. Our vision is to provide a secure and
nurturing environment for all the children, youth, and families of our
community. We desire to promote, to their fullest potential, the
freedom to develop individual skills and visions of the world.
Our mission is to help children, youth, and their families address
issues and problems via Prevention by reaching youth before their
problems become crises, and via Intervention through the provision of
support services to youth entangled in the juvenile justice system.
BYA helps to build capacity within individuals to reach their innate
potential.
Web: http://www.byaonline.org/
Keys: camping; childcare; children; classes / courses; computers;
counseling; ecology; family; health; intervention; juvenile justice;
prevention; services; sports; youth
[Contact data last verified 17 Jan 2015]
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Name: Between The Lines (BTL)
Text: A weekly syndicated half-hour news magazine featuring progressive
perspectives on national and international political, economic and
social issues.
Because Between The Lines is independent of all publications, media
networks or political parties, we are able to bring a diversity of
voices to the airwaves. This award-winning program provides a platform
for individuals and organizations generally ignored or marginalized in
corporate media.
Web: http://www.btlonline.org/
Keys: economics; news; news on-line; radio
[Contact data last verified 22 Apr 2018]
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Name: Beyond Chron
Address: 126 Hyde Street
San Francisco CA 94102
Voice: (415) 771-9850
Fax: (415) 771-1287
Text: We provide coverage of political and cultural issues often distorted
or ignored by other media. Beyond Chron presents a critical look at
the cutting edge issues of the day. Beyond Chron is published by the
San Francisco-based Tenderloin Housing Clinic. Clinic Director Randy
Shaw is the paper’s editor. Shaw is a longtime San Francisco activist
who has published four books on activism, including The Activist’s
Handbook: Winning Social Change in the 21st Century and Beyond the
Fields: Cesar Chavez, the UFW and the Struggle for Justice in the 21st
Century.
Email: feedback@beyondchron.org
Web: http://www.beyondchron.org/
Keys: media criticism; municipal government; news on-line
[Contact data last verified 12 Apr 2015]
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Name: Beyond Pesticides
Text: A 501(c)3 nonprofit organization headquartered in Washington, D.C.,
which works with allies in protecting public health and the
environment to lead the transition to a world free of toxic
pesticides. The founders, who established Beyond Pesticides as a
nonprofit membership organization in 1981, felt that without the
existence of such an organized, national network, local, state and
national pesticide policy would become, under chemical industry
pressure, increasingly unresponsive to public health and environmental
concerns.
Beyond Pesticides believes that people must have a voice in decisions
that affect them directly. We believe decisions should not be made for
us by chemical companies or by decision makers who either do not have
all of the facts or refuse to consider them.
Web: http://www.beyondpesticides.org
Keys: pesticides; policy; public health; toxics
[Contact data last verified 09 Apr 2017]
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Name: Big Think Studios
Address: 512 Missouri Street
San Francisco CA 94107
Voice: (415) 934-1111
Text: A group of advertising and graphic design professionals dedicated to
social change. We craft strategies and communication materials that
inspire people to take action to improve the world around them. We
understand this is no small task. That’s why we think big.
Our clients come to us because we’re experts at transforming complex
issues into simple, powerful messages. We help you set achievable
marketing goals, motivate your target audience, and distinguish your
brand identity. We do all of this with creativity, a strong commitment
to collaboration, and a healthy dose of humor.
Email: lael@bigthinkstudios.com
Web: http://www.bigthinkstudios.com/
Keys: advertising; communications; humor; media; publicity; web site design
[Contact data last verified 17 Apr 2016]
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Name: Bike East Bay
Address: POBox 1736
Oakland CA 94604
Voice: (510) 845-RIDE (7433)
Text: Promotes healthy, sustainable communities by making bicycling safe,
fun and accessible.
The East Bay is a leader for innovative and accessible bikeways and
streets that meet the needs of all users. Bicycling is a mainstream,
comfortable and safe choice for people of all cultures, ages,
abilities, and backgrounds. Bicycles are well integrated into the
transportation system and are a key part of our thriving communities.
Web: https://bikeeastbay.org
Keys: cycling; policy; transportation; walking
[Contact data last verified 22 Apr 2018]
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Name: Bike Kitchen, The
Address: 650H Florida Street (between 18th and 19th)
San Francisco CA 94110
Voice: (415) 506-RIDE (7433)
Text: Teaches people of all ages and backgrounds how to repair bicycles. The
Bike Kitchen promotes personal development and provides leadership
opportunities. Operating as a cooperative shop, we provide affordable
ways to acquire and maintain a bike, encourage re-use and recycling,
and work with community groups to get more people on bicycles.
Founded in 2003, the Bike Kitchen is a 501(c)(3) non-profit run by
volunteers. We provide all the tools and parts you need to fix or
build a bicycle. Our staff of volunteer mechanics is available to give
advice and answer questions.
Web: http://www.bikekitchen.org
Keys: classes / courses; cooperatives; cycling; do-it-yourself
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Name: Bike Walk Alameda
Address: POBox 2732
Alameda CA 94501
Voice: (510) 595-4690
Text: Mission is to make our city a safe and enjoyable place to walk and
bike. We support an active and healthy citizenry by promoting everyday
walking and biking in and around Alameda and seek to enhance our
environment by removing barriers that restrict our ability to walk and
bike comfortably and safely.
We believe in developing positive partnerships in order to accomplish
our goals and in educating to reach our goals. By working together, we
can enhance the quality of life on the island. We believe that more
people riding and walking around our island means safer streets;
slower traffic; more thriving business districts; active, healthy
citizens; and cleaner air.
Email: info@bikewalkalameda.org
Web: http://bikewalkalameda.org/
Keys: cycling; neighborhoods; transportation; walking
[Contact data last verified 21 Jan 2018]
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Name: Bill of Rights Defense Committee (BORDC)
Text: Protects the right of political expression to strengthen participatory
democracy, and to fulfill the promise of the Bill of Rights for
everyone.
We seek to hold government accountable to We the People and create a
nation where police and intelligence agencies cannot be used as tools
of repression or to silence dissent.
Our work will ensure government accountability and transparency, end
profiling based on personal characteristics (such as race, religion,
ideology or gender) by law enforcement and intelligence agencies, and
will protect our private information and activities from unwarranted
government spying.
Web: http://www.bordc.org
Keys: civil liberties; diversity; free speech; government; law; police
accountability; surveillance; technical assistance
[Contact data last verified 09 Apr 2017]
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Name: Bill of Rights Defense Committee & Defending Dissent Foundation
(BORDC/DDF)
Text: Protects the right of political expression to strengthen participatory
democracy, and to fulfill the promise of the Bill of Rights for
everyone.
We seek to hold government accountable to We the People and create a
nation where police and intelligence agencies cannot be used as tools
of repression or to silence dissent.
Our work will ensure government accountability and transparency, end
profiling based on personal characteristics (such as race, religion,
ideology or gender) by law enforcement and intelligence agencies, and
will protect our private information and activities from unwarranted
government spying.
Web: http://bordc.org/
Keys: free speech; government; law; police accountability; spying
[Contact data last verified 21 Jan 2017]
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Name: Bill Wilson Center
Address: 3490 The Alameda
Santa Clara CA 95050
Voice: (408) 243-0222
Fax: (408) 246-5752
Text: Provides direct services to more than 3,500 children, youth, young
adults and families in Santa Clara County through our various
programs. We reach more than 34,000 clients indirectly through our
Street Outreach and crisis line programs. Bill Wilson Center programs
focus on housing, education, counseling, and advocacy.
Bill Wilson Center is committed to working with the community to
ensure that every youth has access to the range of services needed to
grow to be healthy and self-sufficient adults. Bill Wilson Center has
been providing services to runaway and homeless youth since 1973.
Email: bwcmail@billwilsoncenter.org
Web: http://www.billwilsoncenter.org
Keys: counseling; family; self-sufficiency; services; shelters; youth
[Contact data last verified 17 Jan 2015]
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Name: Billy DeFrank LGBTQ Community Center
Address: 938 The Alameda
San Jose CA 95126
Voice: (408) 293-3040
Text: Provides community, leadership, advocacy, services and support to the
Silicon Valley’s LGBTQ People and their Allies.
Email: fabulous@defrank.org
Web: http://www.defrank.org
http://www.Facebook.com/billydefrank
Keys: Santa Clara County; sexual minorities; support groups
[Contact data last verified 25 Mar 2017]
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Name: Blackbird Family Therapy, Inc.
Voice: (510) 594-4332
Text: A social enterprise that advances a mission of creating social change
by promoting mental health training and services.
Provides on site continuing education credit trainings on mental
health topics to people who work in a variety of professions,
including:
Psychologists, Psychiatrists, LCSWs, & MFTs (CEUs)
Attorneys (continuing legal education - CLE)
Law Enforcement
Foster Care & Juvenile Justice Professionals
Nurses, Physicians, & Health Care Professionals
Web: http://blackbirdfamilytherapy.com
Keys: adoption & foster care; child abuse; children; domestic violence;
mental health; psychotherapy; rape; services; therapy
[Contact data last verified 07 Jan 2017]
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Name: Blue Planet United (Pop!ulation Press)
Text: A public-benefit non-profit organization that helps people make
connections between population stabilization, sustainable consumption,
and the preservation of wild landscapes and seascapes. We create
educational films, web sites, and print publications that foster
environmental awareness and action to save the last great wild places
of this tiny blue planet.
Web: http://www.populationpress.org/
Keys: population control; sustainability
[Contact data last verified 07 Oct 2017]
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Name: Bolerium Books
Address: 2141 Mission Street, Suite 300 (between 17th & 18th Streets, 3rd
floor)
San Francisco CA 94110
Voice: (415) 863-6353
(800) 326-6353
Fax: (415) 255-6499
Text: We specialize in books and ephemeral materials related to the history
of Labor and other social movements, including the struggles for Black
and Chicano equality, the Gay liberation movement, Feminism, and
Asian-American activism, as well as the Far Right. In recent years
Bolerium has expanded into materials in non-western languages, and has
also placed more emphasis on ephemera, with tens of thousands of
original leaflets, pamphlets, and posters in stock. Bolerium is a
member of the Antiquarian Booksellers' Association of America (ABAA).
While our entire catalogued stock is searchable on our website
(www.bolerium.com), we also have a large amount of material in storage
and “in process” that can be searched for items of interest.
Email: info@bolerium.com
Web: http://www.bolerium.com
Keys: book sellers
[Contact data last verified 22 Apr 2018]
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Name: Borneo Project, The
Address: c/o Earth Island Institute
2150 Allston Way, Suite 460
Berkeley CA 94704
Text: Brings international attention and support to community-led efforts to
defend forests, sustainable livelihoods, and human rights.
Protecting human rights and environmental integrity in Borneo is a
critical component of the global movement for a just and peaceful
world.
Email: info@borneoproject.org
Web: http://borneoproject.org
Keys: Asia; crafts; deforestation; development; environmental justice; fair
trade; indigenous people; micropower; rainforests; sister communities;
watersheds
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Name: Boys & Girls Clubs of North San Mateo County
Address: 201 West Orange Avenue
South San Francisco CA 94080
Voice: (650) 589-7090
Text: Our mission is to inspire and enable young people to realize their
full potential and contribute to their communities.
Our vision for children and youth is that:
Every child achieves academic success, and has developed a plan
for their future
Every child is physically active every day
Every child develops a positive sense of self
Web: http://www.theclubs.org
Keys: children; San Mateo County; youth
[Contact data last verified 09 Oct 2016]
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Name: Brass Liberation Orchestra (BLO)
Text: Makes loud on the streets to inspire, instigate, agitate, mourn,
celebrate, and communicate. We stand in solidarity with groups and
movements who are working for a more just and equitable world. We are
a work in progress. We work to build a
multigender/multiracial/multigenerational group that enhances and
strengthens the culture of the Left.
Web: http://brassliberation.org/
Keys: demonstrations; music; peace; racism
[Contact data last verified 12 Apr 2015]
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Name: Brave New Films
Text: Our mission is to champion social justice issues by using a model of
media, education, and grassroots volunteer involvement that inspires,
empowers, motivates and teaches civic participation and makes a
difference.
Robert Greenwald and Brave New Films are creating a better America,
and we want you to join us. Using media, films, volunteers and
internet video campaigns, Brave New Films has created a quick-strike
capability that informs the public, challenges mainstream media with
the truth, and motivates people to take action on social issues
nationwide.
Web: http://www.bravenewfilms.org/
Keys: film / video; investigative journalism; mail-order; products
[Contact data last verified 07 Oct 2017]
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Name: Bread & Roses
Address: 233 Tamalpais Drive, Suite 100
Corte Madera CA 94925-1415
Voice: (415) 945-7120
Text: Brings hope and healing through live music to isolated individuals in
the San Francisco Bay Area. Our performances uplift the spirits of
children undergoing chemotherapy, teens battling substance abuse,
families in homeless shelters, veterans recovering from wounds visible
and invisible, seniors nearing the end of life transition, and others
living apart from friends and family while facing challenging times.
Email: info@breadandroses.org
Web: http://www.breadandroses.org/
Keys: AIDS / HIV; child abuse; children; homelessness; music; seniors
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Name: Breast Cancer Action (BCAction)
Address: 657 Mission Street, Suite 302
San Francisco CA 94105
Voice: (415) 243-9301
(877) 2STOPBC (toll-free)
Text: Among the endless sea of lucrative breast cancer charities, corporate
donors, and pharmaceutical-funded research agendas, the independent
voice that defines Breast Cancer Action has never been more urgently
needed, and our relevance as an activist watchdog organization is
greater than ever. At BCAction, we focus on systemic interventions
that will address the root causes of the disease and produce broad
public health benefits. These benefits will ensure that fewer women
develop breast cancer and die from breast cancer and no community
bears a disproportionate burden of diagnosis or death from this
disease.
Email: info@bcaction.org
Web: http://www.bcaction.org
Keys: health; policy; women
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Name: Breast Cancer Fund (TBCF)
Address: 1388 Sutter Street, Suite 400
San Francisco CA 94109-5400
Voice: (415) 346-8223
Text: Works to connect the dots between breast cancer and exposures to
chemicals and radiation in our everyday environments.
We translate the growing body of scientific evidence linking breast
cancer and environmental exposures into public education and advocacy
campaigns that protect our health and reduce breast cancer risk.
We help transform how our society thinks about and uses chemicals and
radiation, with the goal of preventing breast cancer and sustaining
health and life.
We find practical solutions so that our children, grandchildren and
planet can thrive.
Email: info@breastcancerfund.org
Web: http://www.breastcancerfund.org
Keys: healthcare access; toxics; women
[Contact data last verified 16 Jul 2016]
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Name: Brentwood Agricultural Land Trust (BALT)
Address: POBox 2046
Brentwood CA 94513
Voice: (925) 634-6738
Text: Works with Contra Costa farmers and the community so that future
generations in the Bay Area will have a local source of food. The rich
agricultural lands on the urban edge of Contra Costa County include
more than 12,000 acres of irrigated farmland located just fifty miles
from the Bay Area. With rich delta soils, ample water and a year-round
growing season, Brentwood farms have provided food for the Bay Area
since the 1880's. Today Brentwood farmers continue to grow a
remarkable diversity of food, primarily fruits and vegetables.
Email: brentwoodagtrust@sbcglobal.net
Web: http://www.brentwoodaglandtrust.org/
Keys: agriculture; Contra Costa County; land trusts
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Name: Brisbane Baylands Community Advisory Group (BBCAG)
Voice: (415) 468-1548
Text: Purpose is to provide an open forum and community-based input from the
communities of Brisbane, Daly City, and San Francisco, and to advise
the agencies charged with the remediation actions on the area commonly
referred to as the Brisbane Baylands.
Formed in response to an application to the Department of Toxic
Substances Control (DTSC). Under the auspices of the DTSC, the BBCAG
has investigated and continues to investigate toxic contamination in
the Brisbane Baylands.
Email: maryc@gutekanst.com
Web: http://www.bbcag.com/
Keys: deregulation; municipal government; San Mateo County; toxics
[Contact data last verified 15 Jul 2017]
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Name: Brush Fire Painting Workshops
Address: 743 Taraval Street (at 19th Avenue)
San Francisco CA 94116
Voice: (415) 572-3159
Text: Uses the power of the arts to heal hearts and transform lives. We
teach Process Oriented Painting to unleash the therapeutic qualities
of the creative process. We believe creativity is a basic human need;
we strive to bring art to the lives of marginalized youth throughout
the San Francisco Bay Area. The creative process helped these youth
gain a sense of purpose and self-worth.
Web: http://www.PaintBrushFire.org
Keys: art; classes / courses; creativity; therapy; youth
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Name: Buddhist Peace Fellowship (BPF)
Address: POBox 3470
Berkeley CA 94703
Voice: (510) 239-3764
Text: Mission is to serve as a catalyst for socially engaged Buddhism. Our
purpose is to help beings liberate themselves from the suffering that
manifests in individuals, relationships, institutions, and social
systems. BPF’s programs, publications, and practice groups link
Buddhist teachings of wisdom and compassion with progressive social
change.
Web: http://www.bpf.org
Keys: magazines; peace; religion
[Contact data last verified 07 Jan 2017]
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Name: Build It Green
Address: 1330 Broadway, Suite 1702
Oakland CA 94612
Voice: (510) 590-3360
Fax: (510) 590-3361
Text: Works with building and real estate professionals, local and state
governments, and homeowners to increase awareness and adoption of
green building practices. Our mission is to promote healthy, energy-
and resource-efficient building practices in California through
outreach and education.
Our vision is for a more sustainable world where all homes are built
to support the health and vitality of people and the natural
environment. We believe that changing how homes are designed, built,
and remodeled is essential to preventing climate change, minimizing
pollution, and protecting natural resources for future generations.
Web: http://www.builditgreen.org/
Keys: building materials; energy; housing; pollution; sustainability
[Contact data last verified 12 Apr 2015]
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Name: Building Opportunities for Self-Sufficiency (BOSS)
Address: 1918 University Avenue, Suite 2A
Berkeley CA 94704
Voice: (510) 649-1930
Fax: (510) 649-0627
Text: Mission is to help homeless, poor, and disabled people achieve health
and self-sufficiency, and to fight against the root causes of poverty
and homelessness.
Over the years as the number of homeless people exploded throughout
our communities, BOSS expanded county-wide, adding programs in
response to changing needs: emergency shelters, transitional houses,
education and employment programs, family and child development
services, health and mental health care programs, leadership
development and organizing initiatives, re-entry initiatives, and
more.
BOSS works one-on-one with each family and each individual to help
them achieve stable income, permanent affordable housing, and lasting
wellness.
Web: http://www.self-sufficiency.org
Keys: children; community-building; disabilities; drugs; employment; family;
homelessness; housing; leadership development; mental health; poverty;
self-reliance; self-sufficiency; services; shelters; youth
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Name: Building REsources
Address: 701 Amador Street
San Francisco CA 94124
Voice: (415) 285-7814
Fax: (415) 285-4689
Text: San Francisco's only source for reusable, recycled and remanufactured
building and landscaping materials.
Building Resources is a not for profit organization dedicated to
providing our community with low cost high quality materials, in a
friendly, clean and organized setting.
Our 1 1/2 acres are full of wonderful finds and great values. Project
ideas are demonstrated throughout our buildings and gardens, all of
which are built using 100% reused materials.
Email: info@buildingresources.org
Web: http://www.buildingresources.org/
Keys: building materials; recycling
[Contact data last verified 09 Oct 2016]
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Name: Bullfrog Films
Text: The leading US publisher of independently-produced, environmental DVDs
& videos that point the way to living healthily, happily, and with
greater concern for the other inhabitants of this planet, and for our
descendants. We also distribute world-famous performing arts programs
from Rhombus Media.
Web: http://www.bullfrogfilms.com
Keys: dance; development; diversity; ecology; film / video; indigenous
people; music; products; sustainability
[Contact data last verified 16 Jul 2016]
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Name: Bureau of Public Secrets
Address: POBox 1044
Berkeley CA 94701
Text: This web site features "The Joy of Revolution" and other writings by
Ken Knabb (collected in the book PUBLIC SECRETS) as well as Knabb's
translations from the Situationist International (the notorious group
that helped trigger the May 1968 revolt in France).
Email: knabb@bopsecrets.org
Web: http://www.bopsecrets.org
Keys: anarchism; books; mail-order
[Contact data last verified 22 Apr 2018]
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Name: Burma Humanitarian Mission (BHM)
Text: Seeks a healthy and vibrant Burma where the human rights of all people
are protected and empowers people from around the world to exercise
their health to support and advocate on behalf of the people of
Burma.
BHM supports community-based backpack medics who administer village
healthcare services in Burma, grass-roots education projects that
empower the youth of Burma and projects that promote cross-cultural
sharing and collaboration for refugees from Burma living in the U.S.
Web: http://burmamission.org
Keys: Burma; healthcare access; material aid
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Name: Burmese American Democratic Alliance (BADA)
Address: 1952 Mcnair Street
Palo Alto CA 94303
Voice: (415) 895-BADA
Text: The primary objective of BADA is to help bring democracy, freedom and
prosperity to the (60 million) people of Burma through advocacy,
awareness, partnerships and corporations. We therefore strive to be an
exemplar and a beacon of hope to the fellow citizens of Burma who has
been seeking democracy and freedom for decades. We work,
To highlight the social injustices and human rights abuses in
Burma
To provide humanitarian assistance to the people of Burma
To inform, educate and raise awareness of the social, political,
and economic situation in Burma to the American people
To promote culture, education, and social activities in the
Community
Email: badaonline@gmail.com
Web: http://www.badasf.org/
Keys: Burma; coalitions; democracy; human rights; material aid
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Name: Business Alliance for Local Living Economies (BALLE)
Address: 2323 Broadway
Oakland CA 94612
Voice: (510) 587-9417
Text: BALLE (pronounced bolly) was founded in 2001 to nurture and curate the
emergence of a new economy – one that will gradually displace our
destructive and failing economy with a system that supports the
health, prosperity, and happiness for all people and regenerates the
vital ecosystems upon which our economy depends. With a focus on real
change within a generation, BALLE works to identify and connect
pioneering leaders, spread solutions, and attract investment toward
local economies.
Email: info@bealocalist.org
Web: http://livingeconomies.org/
Keys: business; local economy; networking
[Contact data last verified 25 Jan 2015]
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Name: Buy Local Berkeley
Address: c/o Berkeley Chamber of Commerce
1834 University Avenue
Berkeley CA 94703
Voice: (510) 219-5524
Text: Our mission is to boost our strong, vibrant local economy:
Shifting consumer spending to independent, locally-owned & operated businesses
whenever possible.
Connecting consumers with businesses, promoting Berkeley's amazing,
unique businesses and producers.
Marketing, publicity, advertising, education on the social, economic,
cultural, environmental and community benefits and personal joys of
shopping local, unique businesses.
Empowering independent, locally-owned & operated businesses to promote
their business and communicate the benefits of Buying Local.
Email: buylocalberkeley@gmail.com
Web: http://www.buylocalberkeley.org
Keys: business; local economy
[Contact data last verified 17 Apr 2016]
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Name: California Advocates for Nursing Home Reform (CANHR)
Address: 650 Harrison Street, 2nd Floor
San Francisco CA 94107
Voice: (415) 974-5171
(800) 474-1116
Text: Dedicated to improving the choices, care and quality of life for
California’s long term care consumers. Through direct advocacy,
community education, legislation and litigation it has been CANHR’s
goal to educate and support long term care consumers and advocates
regarding the rights and remedies under the law, and to create a
united voice for long term care reform and humane alternatives to
institutionalization.
Email: canhrmail@canhr.org
Web: http://www.canhr.org/
Keys: consumer protection; counseling; healthcare access; lawyers; legal
services; nursing homes; seniors
[Contact data last verified 22 Apr 2018]
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Name: California Anti-SLAPP Project (CASP)
Address: 2903 Sacramento Street
Berkeley CA 94702
Voice: (510) 486-9123
Fax: (510) 486-9708
Text: A public interest law firm and policy organization dedicated to
fighting Strategic Lawsuits Against Public Participation (SLAPPs) in
California. Often these suits are filed in the form of claims of
defamation, libel, slander, malicious prosecution and/or abuse of
process, among others.
Email: info[at]casp[dot]net
Web: http://www.casp.net
Keys: civil liberties; civil rights; corporations; First Amendment; free
speech; Internet; justice; law; lawyers; legal defense; legal
services; legislation; litigation
[Contact data last verified 07 Jul 2015]
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Name: California Certified Organic Farmers (CCOF)
Address: 2155 Delaware Avenue, Suite 150
Santa Cruz CA 95060
Voice: (831) 423-2263
Fax: (831) 423-4528
Text: Advances organic agriculture for a healthy world. We advocate on
behalf of our members for organic policies, support the growth of
organic through education and grants, and provide organic
certification that is personal and accessible.
CCOF is a nonprofit organization governed by the people who grow and
make our food. Founded in California more than 40 years ago, today our
roots span the breadth of North America and our presence is
internationally recognized. We are supported by an organic family of
farmers, ranchers, processors, retailers, consumers, and policymakers.
Together, we work to realize a future where organic is the norm.
Email: ccof@ccof.org
Web: http://www.ccof.org/
Keys: organic agriculture; policy; publicity
[Contact data last verified 22 Apr 2018]
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Name: California Clean Money Action Fund
Text: A non-profit, non-partisan 501(c)(4) organization that is the
political advocacy arm of the 501(c)(3) California Clean Money
Campaign. The California Clean Money Action Fund has been fighting
for legislation and ballot measures to limit the undue influence of
Big Money in California politics since 2006.
Our supporters include over 100,000 Californians that either are
active Clean Money members or who have signed the petition for Clean
Money or the California DISCLOSE Act.
Web: http://www.yesfairelections.org/
Keys: campaign finance reform; legislation; petitions
[Contact data last verified 22 Jan 2017]
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Name: California Clean Money Campaign
Text: A non-profit, non-partisan organization that started its efforts in
March, 2002 when it became increasingly clear that politics in
California is dominated by Big Money special interests, not voters.
It gets worse every year.
Our long-term mission is to educate Californians about the need to
clean up its broken campaign finance system by bringing real campaign
disclosure and full Clean Money, Fair Elections public financing of
campaigns to California so that everybody has a voice and so that
politicians are accountable to voters, not special interests.
Web: http://www.caclean.org
Keys: campaign finance reform; coalitions; lobbying
[Contact data last verified 25 Jan 2015]
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Name: California Climate and Agriculture Network (CalCAN)
Address: POBox 1366
Sebastopol CA 95473
Voice: (707) 329-6374
Text: A coalition that advances policy solutions at the nexus of climate
change and sustainable agriculture.
There is an increasingly urgent scientific, economic and social
mandate for agriculture to address climate change with boldness and
innovation. In California, climate change is expected to cause
prolonged and frequent heat waves, drier conditions, reduced water
resources and increased pest and disease pressures. These profound
challenges to the viability of California agriculture require action.
The vision for California’s agricultural future that has long been
articulated and modeled by sustainable agriculture provides powerful
solutions to the climate crisis.
Email: info@calclimateag.org
Web: calclimateag.org
Keys: agriculture; climate change; coalitions; policy
[Contact data last verified 09 Oct 2016]
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Name: California Coalition for Women Prisoners (CCWP)
Address: 1540 Market Street, Suite 490
San Francisco CA 94102
Voice: (415) 255-7036 x4
Fax: (415) 552-3150
Text: A grassroots social justice organization, with members inside and
outside prison, that challenges the institutional violence imposed on
women, transgender people, and communities of color by the prison
industrial complex (PIC). We see the struggle for racial and gender
justice as central to dismantling the PIC and we prioritize the
leadership of the people, families, and communities most impacted in
building this movement.
Email: info@womenprisoners.org
Web: http://www.womenprisoners.org
Keys: coalitions; health; incarceration; transgenders; women
[Contact data last verified 23 Oct 2016]
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Name: California FarmLink
Text: Mission is to link independent farmers and ranchers to the land and
financing they need for a sustainable future.
California FarmLink began as a technical assistance provider and
linking service for aspiring farmers looking to connect with retiring
farmers. Over its history, FarmLink has diversified to provide other
critical services to farmers. Currently, FarmLink provides access to
capital and land to low income, beginning, underserved, minority and
small-scale farmers.
Web: http://californiafarmlink.org/
Keys: agriculture; business; conservation; mentoring; networking; services;
technical assistance
[Contact data last verified 25 Jan 2015]
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Name: California First Amendment Coalition (CFAC (SEE-fak))
Text: An award-winning, nonprofit public interest organization dedicated to
advancing free speech, more open and accountable government, and
public participation in civic affairs.
Web: http://www.cfac.org/
Keys: coalitions; First Amendment; free speech; freedom of information;
right to know
[Contact data last verified 16 Jul 2016]
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Name: California Food Policy Advocates (CFPA)
Address: 436 14th Street, Suite 1220
Oakland CA 94612
Voice: (510) 433-1122
Fax: (510) 433-1131
Text: As a 501(c)3 non-profit organization exclusively focused on food
policy, CFPA can dedicate the whole of its time, resources, and energy
towards increasing low-income Californians access to healthy food.
Email: george@cfpa.net
Web: http://www.cfpa.net/
Keys: food; health; low-income; nutrition; policy
[Contact data last verified 17 Apr 2016]
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Name: California Housing Law Project (CHLP)
Text: A project of the California Rural Legal Assistance Foundation in
collaboration with other leading housing and legal services advocacy
groups. The Law Project focuses on affordable housing advocacy in the
state legislature, as well as outreach and education on a wide variety
of affordable housing and land use issues. Through the Housing
Advocates website, the Law Project seeks to provide comprehensive and
up-to-date information on statewide housing policy issues of interest
to affordable housing and homeless advocates in California.
Web: http://www.housingadvocates.org
Keys: housing; land use; legislation; policy; research materials; tenant
rights
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Name: California Indian Environmental Alliance (CIEA)
Address: POBox 2128
Berkeley CA 94702
Voice: (510) 848-2043
Text: CIEA’s core programs are the the Mercury Tribal Health Program, Tribal
Self-Advocacy Program and the Native Youth Environmental Leadership
Program. A fourth program the Global Mercury Program links California
Tribes with the Minamata Global Mercury Treaty.
Together these programs empower California Indian communities to
practice subsistence fishing cultures, avoid mercury and PCBs in fish,
self-advocate for cleanup of California lands and waterways, and train
the future generation to be environmental stewards.
Email: sherri@cieaweb.org
Web: http://www.ciea-health.org/
Keys: health; mining; Native Americans; toxics
[Contact data last verified 09 Apr 2017]
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Name: California Institute for Rural Studies (CIRS)
Text: We want to increase social justice in rural California for all
residents, building sustainable communities based on a healthy
agriculture. Foremost in our work will be marginalized populations.
The goals of our public interest research are to strengthen social
justice and increase the sustainability of California's rural
communities.
Our work informs public policy and inspires action for social change
while providing a fact-based foundation for organizations and
individuals working to ameliorate rural injustice.
Web: http://www.cirsinc.org/
Keys: development; researchers; rural life; sustainability
[Contact data last verified 16 Jul 2016]
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Name: California Institute of Integral Studies (CIIS)
Address: 1453 Mission Street
San Francisco CA 94103
Voice: (415) 575-6100
Text: An accredited university that strives to embody spirit, intellect, and
wisdom in service to individuals, communities, and the earth. CIIS
expands the boundaries of traditional degree programs with
transdisciplinary, cross-cultural, and applied studies utilizing
face-to-face, hybrid, and online pedagogical approaches. Offering a
personal learning environment and supportive community, CIIS provides
an excellent multifaceted education for people committed to
transforming themselves, others, and the world.
Web: http://www.ciis.edu
Keys: classes / courses; counseling; education; philosophy; psychology;
religion; spirituality
[Contact data last verified 22 Apr 2018]
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Name: California Interfaith Power and Light (CIPL)
Address: 369 Pine Street, Suite 700
San Francisco CA 94104
Voice: (415) 391-4214
Fax: (415) 561-4892
Text: Mission of California Interfaith Power and Light (CIPL) is to be
faithful stewards of Creation by responding to global warming through
the promotion of energy conservation, energy efficiency and renewable
energy. This ministry intends to protect the earth’s ecosystems,
safeguard public health, and ensure sufficient, sustainable energy for
all.
Web: http://www.interfaithpower.org/
Keys: conservation; energy; global warming; religion; renewable energy
[Contact data last verified 25 Jan 2015]
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Name: California Labor Federation
Address: 600 Grand Avenue, Suite 410
Oakland CA 94610-3561
Voice: (510) 663-4000
Fax: (510) 663-4099
Text: Made up of more than 1,200 AFL-CIO and Change to Win unions,
representing 2.1 million union members in manufacturing, retail,
construction, hospitality, public sector, health care, entertainment
and other industries.
The California Labor Federation is dedicated to promoting and
defending the interests of working people and their families for the
betterment of California’s communities. From legislative campaigns to
grassroots organizing, our affiliates are actively engaged in every
aspect of California’s economy and government.
Email: info@calaborfed.org
Web: http://www.calaborfed.org
Keys: labor; labor councils
[Contact data last verified 17 Apr 2016]
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Name: California League of Conservation Voters (CLCV)
Address: 350 Frank H. Ogawa Plaza, Suite 1100
Oakland CA 94612
Voice: (510) 271-0900
(800) 755-3224
Fax: (510) 271-0901
Text: The non-partisan political action arm of California's environmental
movement.
The CLCV mission is to protect and enhance the environment and the
health of all California communities by electing environmental
champions, advancing critical priorities, and holding policymakers
accountable.
Web: http://www.ecovote.org
Keys: conservation; ecology; elections; lobbying; research materials;
watchdog groups
[Contact data last verified 18 Oct 2015]
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Name: California Legislative Information
Text: A web site containing the complete texts of California Codes, the
California Constitution, and all statutes enacted on or after 1 Jan
1993, plus information on pending legislation.
Web: http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/
Keys: law; legislation; research materials; state government
[Contact data last verified 22 Apr 2018]
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Name: California Native Plant Society (CNPS)
Text: Works to protect California's native plant heritage and preserve it
for future generations. CNPS actively promotes the use of science in
land use and management decisions through our Online Rare Plant
Inventory and essential reference book: Manual of California
Vegetation, 2nd Edition, both of which are the most advanced resources
available for identifying and managing critical habitat in California.
We work closely with decision-makers, scientists, and local planners
to advocate for well-informed and environmental friendly policies,
regulations, and land management practices.
Web: http://www.cnps.org
Keys: conservation; endangered species / habitat; gardening; history;
science
[Contact data last verified 12 Apr 2015]
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Name: California Newsreel
Address: 44 Gough Street, Suite 303
San Francisco CA 94103-5424
Voice: (415) 284-7800
Fax: (415) 284-7801
Text: California Newsreel has produced and distributed cutting-edge social
issue films for activists and educators since 1968. Today it is the
oldest, independent non-profit documentary center in the country and
the first systematically to integrate media production and
distribution with the media needs of contemporary social change
movements.
Email: contact@newsreel.org
Web: http://www.newsreel.org/
Keys: Africa; African Americans; diversity; educational curriculum; film /
video; history; labor; media criticism
[Contact data last verified 21 Jan 2018]
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Name: California Nurses Association (CNA)
Text: A premiere organization of registered nurses and one of the nation’s
fastest growing labor and professional organizations in the U.S. with
more than 86,000 members in hospitals, clinics and home health
agencies in all 50 states. In the past 15 years, CNA/NNOC has grown by
nearly 400 percent.
CNA/NNOC is also a founding member of the 185,000-member National
Nurses United, which in 2009 united CNA/NNOC, the United American
Nurses, and the Massachusetts Nurses Association to create the largest
union and professional association of nurses in U.S. history.
Web: http://www.nationalnursesunited.org/site/entry/california-nurses-association
Keys: health; hospitals; labor; legislation
[Contact data last verified 25 Jan 2015]
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Name: California Physicians Alliance
Text: Health care is a human right. Our mission is to educate and advocate
for health care reform in order to achieve guaranteed, high quality,
comprehensive and equally accessible care for all.
While the California Physicians Alliance supports efforts to help all
people obtain health care, we work to establish a publicly financed,
non-profit single-payer health care system in California and the
nation.
We were founded in 1987 as California Physicians Alliance (CaPA) with
the goal of promoting progressive change in health care at the state
and national levels. From 1993 to July 2016, CaPA also was the
California chapter of Physicians for a National Health Program. That
affiliation agreement has now been dissolved, and the California
Physicians Alliance has returned to using its original name.
Web: http://caphysiciansalliance.org/
Keys: healthcare access; insurance; single payer health care
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Name: California Prison Focus (CPF)
Address: near 19th Street BART
1904 Franklin Street, Suite 507
Oakland CA 94612
Text: We stand up strong against the cruel and torturous conditions of the
California prison system, especially advocating for the immediate shut
down of all SHU (Security Housing Units) cells and similar conditions
of solitary confinement.
We publish a quarterly magazine, Prison Focus, distributed free to SHU
prisoners, $6 a year to other prisoners, and $20 a year to former
prisoners, their family members, activists, and friends of CPF.
We travel regularly to Pelican Bay and Corcoran state prisons to
uncover and disseminate information on the current conditions
prisoners must endure.
Email: contact@prisons.org
Web: http://www.prisons.org
Keys: AIDS / HIV; healthcare access; human rights; incarceration; prisons;
torture
[Contact data last verified 26 Jan 2015]
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Name: California Program on Access to Care (CPAC)
Address: 50 University Hall
Berkeley CA 94702
Voice: (510) 643-3140
Fax: (510) 642-7861
Text: An applied policy research center of the UC Berkeley School of Public
Health that identifies, tracks, and analyzes policies to improve
health care access for the state’s most vulnerable populations,
including migrants, agricultural workers, the working poor, low-income
women and children, prisoners, and the recently released. CPAC was
established in August 1997 at the behest of the California State
Legislature. CPAC’s directive, as set by the UC Office of the
President, is to serve as a critical linkage between the expertise of
the University of California faculty and policy makers to improve
access to care for vulnerable Californians.
Email: cpac@berkeley.edu
Web: http://cpac.berkeley.edu
Keys: analysis; healthcare access; low-income; policy; researchers
[Contact data last verified 09 Apr 2017]
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Name: California Public Health Association - North (CPHA-N)
Address: POBox 6398
Albany CA 94706
Voice: (510) 285-5554
Fax: (510) 526-2831
Text: An official affiliate of the American Public Health Association. The
CPHA-N service area includes 47 of the 58 California Counties with a
population of nearly 14 million. The student membership program
includes students from public health-related academic programs
throughout the service area, many with representatives serving on the
Governing Council.
Email: office@cphan.org
Web: http://www.cphan.org
Keys: networking; public health
[Contact data last verified 22 Apr 2018]
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Name: California Public Interest Research Group (CALPIRG)
Text: A consumer group that stands up to powerful interests whenever they
threaten our health and safety, our financial security or our right to
fully participate in our democratic society.
For decades, we’ve stood up for consumers, countering the influence of
big banks, insurers, chemical manufacturers and other powerful special
interests.
Our team of researchers uncover the facts; our staff bring our
findings to the public, through the media as well as one-on-one
interactions; and our advocates are bringing the voice of the public
to the halls of power on behalf of consumers.
Web: http://calpirg.org/
Keys: banks; consumer protection; corporations; insurance; researchers
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Name: California Straw Building Association (CASBA)
Text: We are a non-profit organization whose members are
designers,contractors, owner builders, and people interested in straw
building. We serve as a clearinghouse for information and as a network
of resources.
Since 1996, our members have worked to develop testing and to improve
techniques and standards for building with straw, in order to gain its
acceptance by municipalities, officials, lenders, and insurance
companies throughout California. There are now many fine examples of
permitted straw bale homes throughout the state, as well as a number
of commercial buildings, that stand as a testament to this pioneering
work.
Web: http://www.strawbuilding.org
Keys: architecture; building materials
[Contact data last verified 17 Apr 2016]
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Name: California Student Sustainability Coalition (CSSC)
Text: A broad network of student sustainability organizations throughout the
state. Managed and coordinated by students and recent alumni, we
strive to implement policies and programs at various institutional
levels that enhance the three key components of sustainability:
ecology, economy, and equity.
CSSC provides a platform for driving institutional change and a forum
for networking and sharing best practices. CSSC is also a community of
student activists who support one another both directly and
indirectly. CSSC members develop personal leadership, skills, and
direction. CSSC is an inclusive organization and finds strength in
diversity. Like the Swedish proverb, CSSC members believe that shared
pain is half pain and shared joy is double joy.
Web: http://www.sustainabilitycoalition.org/
Keys: coalitions; education; students; sustainability
[Contact data last verified 17 Apr 2016]
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Name: California Trade Justice Coalition (CTJC)
Address: 436 14th Street, Suite 1216
Oakland CA 94612
Text: We are a grassroots coalition across California fighting for better
trade policy and an economy that works for all.
A new coalition of labor, environmental, family farm, public health,
immigrant rights, human rights, pro-democracy, and socially conscious
business leaders — all committed to building a strong California
economy that works for all.
Email: aaron@citizenstrade.org
Web: http://catradejustice.org/
Keys: agriculture; business; coalitions; economics; human rights;
immigrants; labor; policy; public health; trade
[Contact data last verified 06 Apr 2017]
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Name: California Voter Foundation
Text: A nonprofit, nonpartisan organization working through research,
oversight, outreach and demonstration projects to improve the election
process so that it better serves the needs and interests of voters.
Web: http://www.calvoter.org/
Keys: appropriate technology; elections
[Contact data last verified 07 Oct 2017]
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Name: California Walks
Address: 1904 Franklin Street, Suite 709
Oakland CA 94612
Text: A statewide organization of affiliated nonprofit and volunteer groups
dedicated to creating healthy, safe, and walkable communities. Our
mission is to provide a statewide voice for pedestrian safety and
walkable communities through policy advocacy, community empowerment,
and a growing unified statewide network of local community
organizations and affiliates—with particular focus on healthy equity
and communities disparately impacted by pedestrian injuries and
fatalities.
Web: http://www.californiawalks.org/
Keys: coalitions; pedestrian advocacy
[Contact data last verified 22 Apr 2018]
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Name: Californians for Electoral Reform (CfER)
Text: We are a nonpartisan coalition of Californians who believe that all
citizens deserve equal and satisfactory representation in government.
We are working to change California's voting methods to realize this
vision.
Web: http://CFER.org
Keys: democracy; elections; proportional representation; speakers
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Name: Californians for GE-Free Agriculture
Text: A statewide coalition of organic and sustainable agriculture and food
safety organizations committed to ecologically responsible and
economically viable agriculture. Californians for GE-Free Agriculture
provides education and resources in support of the rights of farmers
and communities to evaluate and address the environmental, human
health and economic risks of genetic engineering in agriculture.
Web: http://www.calgefree.org/
Keys: agriculture; biotechnology; consumer protection; genetic engineering
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Name: Californians for Justice (CFJ)
Address: 520 3rd Street #209
Oakland CA 94607
Voice: (510) 452-2728
Fax: (510) 452-3552
Text: A statewide grassroots organization working for racial justice by
building the power of youth, communities of color, immigrants,
low-income families, and LGBTQ communities. Led by students, we
organize to advance educational justice and improve our social,
economic, and political conditions.
Web: http://www.caljustice.org
Keys: affirmative action; criminal justice; legislation; networking; people
of color; petitions; public education; sexual minorities; students
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Name: Californians for Pesticide Reform (CPR)
Address: 1611 Telegraph Avenue, Suite 1200
Oakland CA 94612
Voice: (510) 788-9025
Text: A statewide coalition of more than 185 organizations, founded in 1996
to fundamentally shift the way pesticides are used in California.
CPR's mission is to protect public health, improve environmental
quality and expand a sustainable and just agriculture system by
building a diverse movement across California to change statewide and
local pesticide policies and practices. CPR has built a diverse,
multi-interest coalition to challenge the powerful political and
economic forces opposing change. Our member organizations include
public health, children's health, educational and environmental
advocates, clean air and water organizations, health practitioners,
environmental justice groups, labor, organizations, farmers and
sustainable agriculture advocates.
Web: http://www.pesticidereform.org
Keys: children; coalitions; consumer protection; environmental justice;
labor; pesticides; public health; right to know; sustainability
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Name: Californians United for A Responsible Budget (CURB)
Address: 1322 Webster Street # 210
Oakland CA 94612-3217
Voice: (415) 265-8372
Text: A statewide coalition of 70 grassroots organizations that is reducing
the number of people in prisons and jails, shrinking the imprisonment
system, and shifting public spending from corrections and policing to
human services. Founded in 2003, our coalition amplifies the work of
community leaders on issues from sentencing reform to conditions of
confinement. We bridge movements for environmental, social, racial,
and economic justice in California and across the nation.
Email: info@curbprisonspending.org
Web: http://curbprisonspending.org/
Keys: coalitions; incarceration; prisons
[Contact data last verified 07 Oct 2017]
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Name: Campaign for America's Future
Text: The strategy center for the progressive movement. Our goal is to forge
the enduring progressive majority needed to realize the America of
shared prosperity and equal opportunity that our country was meant to
be.
To attain our ultimate goal, we spearhead a compelling progressive
agenda that addresses the kitchen-table issues working families face.
We regularly convene and educate progressive thinkers, organizers and
community activists so our voices will be coordinated, cogent and
potent. And we incubate national campaigns on the critical issues that
will define America for generations to come.
Web: http://www.ourfuture.org/
Keys: corporate-controlled globalization; economics
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Name: Campaign for Innocent Victims In Conflict (CIVIC)
Text: Focused on helping civilians caught in the midst of armed conflict. We
work directly with people who have the power to transform the
planning, conduct, and aftermath of conflicts for civilians—from
military officials and policymakers to UN bodies and civilians
themselves. Our staff is found in places like Syria, Nigeria, South
Sudan, and Afghanistan, with our headquarters in Washington, DC.
Web: http://www.civicworldwide.org
Keys: humanitarian aid; militarism
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Name: Campaign for New Priorities, Bay Area
Text: Brings together organizations and individuals from diverse
constituencies, communities and movements to demand of our public
officials a change of direction for the U.S. – one that prioritizes
putting people back to work, restoring and fully funding essential
public services, rebuilding and repairing infrastructure, funding the
development of new alternative energy technologies, cleaning up and
protecting the environment, developing a sustainable peace economy,
reducing poverty and inequality, and generally meeting important
social and other human needs.
Web: http://newprioritiescampaign.org/
Keys: economic conversion; employment; energy; peace; poverty;
sustainability
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Name: Campaign to End the Death Penalty (CEDP)
Text: A national grassroots organization dedicated to the abolition of
capital punishment. We have active chapters and members across the
United States—including California, Texas, Delaware, New York, and
Chicago. To win abolition, we need to build a grassroots struggle. We
believe that those who have experienced the horrors of death row ?rst
hand–death row prisoners themselves and their family members–should be
at the forefront of our movement. Their experiences help to shape our
strategies.
Web: http://www.nodeathpenalty.org
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/cedp_oakland/
Keys: death penalty
[Contact data last verified 30 Apr 2016]
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Name: Canal Alliance
Address: 91 Larkspur Street
San Rafael CA 94901
Voice: (415) 454-2640
Fax: (415) 454-3967
Text: A nonprofit champion of immigrants who are challenged by a lack of
resources and an unfamiliar environment.
We believe everyone has the right to achieve their dreams. Every day,
we educate, empower, support, and partner with motivated immigrants to
best meet all their unique needs—from putting food on the table, to
becoming American citizens, to learning English, to graduating from
college. Because when we support immigrants, Marin becomes a place
where everyone can live, work, and succeed.
Web: http://www.canalalliance.org
Keys: classes / courses; counseling; family; immigrants; low-income; Marin
County; services
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Name: CANFIT
Address: POBox 3989
Berkeley CA 94703
Voice: (510) 644-1533
Fax: (510) 843-9705
Text: When it comes to improving the health of today’s youth, CANFIT is a
leader in building community leadership and stimulating change at
multiple levels, from individual behavior to public policy. Our unique
approach to partnering with communities builds capacity and
leadership, while helping to advance sustainable change in low income
communities and communities of color.
Email: info@canfit.org
Web: http://www.canfit.org/
Keys: food; health; low-income; nutrition; youth
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Name: Carbusters Magazine
Text: Aims to serve as both an information source and a call to action,
providing a full range of content from direct action skills to the
latest research developments, feature articles on topics ranging from
Driving as Addiction to Ecocity Visions, world news and even cartoons
poking fun at the car and oil industries.
The magazine shares information, ideas and resources within the
movement and informs a broader audience of transport actions and
campaigns happening around the world. In this way Carbusters can
inspire new activists and nurture current ones.
Web: http://www.carbusters.org/
Keys: automobiles; cycling; magazines; pedestrian advocacy; transportation;
walking
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Name: Carfree.com
Text: The web site that goes with the books Carfree Cities and Carfree
Design Manual propose a delightful solution to the vexing problem of
urban automobiles.
Web: http://www.carfree.com/
Keys: automobiles; books; transportation; urban life
[Contact data last verified 15 Jul 2017]
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Name: Carquinez Regional Environmental Education Center (CREEC)
Text: A state and federally recognized, tax-exempt, 501(c)(3), public
interest charity incorporated in 1995. The role of this nonprofit
organization is to effect wildlife habitat and enhancement,
maintenance and restoration projects in the communities and open lands
surrounding the Carquinez Strait – Californias most significant
wildlife migratory corridor. The sole goal of CREEC is the betterment
of the areas natural resources through cooperative, constructive and
mutually beneficial partnerships with the industries, families and
agencies who live and work along the Strait.
Web: http://www.creecyouth.org/
Keys: conservation; endangered species / habitat; open space; wildlife
[Contact data last verified 07 Oct 2017]
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Name: Cat Support Network
Address: POBox 3645
Walnut Creek CA 94598
Voice: (925) 252-5445
Text: A Trap-Neuter-Return group focused on spay/neuter of feral and
free-roaming cats. Adoption of cats/kittens rescued from the streets.
A hyper-focused rescue organization specifically created to focus
exclusively on cats spay and neutering. Mission is to develop and
implement grassroots outreach programs that address cat
overpopulation, suffering and wellness in our community.
Email: info@catsupport.net
Web: http://www.catsupport.net
Keys: animal liberation; Contra Costa County; population control
[Contact data last verified 06 Jul 2015]
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Name: Catalyst Project
Address: 522 Valencia Street #2
San Francisco CA 94110
Text: Believes that everyone in the world has the right to live with
dignity, safety, and access to resources that are in balance with the
earth. We believe that racism is one of the fundamental forces keeping
systemic injustice in place, and as white people we believe we have a
strategic role to play in ending it. Catalyst Project is committed to
building the leadership of white people to be part of anti-racist
social movements working for fundamental change.
Email: info@collectiveliberation.org
Web: https://collectiveliberation.org/
Keys: leadership development; racism
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Name: Catchafire
Text: A community of individuals striving to push the social good sector
forward by focusing on efficient and effective ways to give back. One
way we do this is by matching professionals with nonprofits based on
their skills, cause interest and time availability.
Web: https://www.catchafire.org
Keys: volunteer matching
[Contact data last verified 21 Jan 2018]
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Name: Catholic Charities of San Jose (CCSJ)
Address: 2625 Zanker Road (near Trimble)
San Jose CA 95134-2107
Voice: (408) 468-0100
Fax: (408) 944-0275
Text: Changes lives for good. We help people of all cultures and beliefs
rise up out of poverty and overcome the barriers to self-sufficiency.
Because most lives are a complex pattern of choices and circumstances,
we take a holistic approach to helping people change their lives,
taking into account the whole person as well as their family and life
situations. We do this through a broad range of services, including
job skills training and placement, older adult services, mental health
and substance abuse counseling, housing assistance, financial
education, immigration support, and refugee resettlement. We also
provide educational programs that help young people develop into
self-sufficient adults. Each year, we serve more than 54,000 people in
need.
Web: http://ccsj.org
Keys: policy; poverty; religion; Santa Clara County
[Contact data last verified 22 Apr 2018]
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Name: Causa Justa / Just Cause (CJJC)
Address: POBox 3596
Oakland CA 94609
Voice: (510) 763-5877
Fax: (510) 763-5824
Text: Builds grassroots power and leadership to create strong, equitable
communities. Born through mergers between Black organizations and
Latin@ organizations, we build bridges of solidarity between working
class communities. We provide tenant rights advocacy and information;
fight grassroots campaigns to win immigrant and housing rights; and
work toward building a larger movement for social transformation.
Through rights-based services, policy campaigns, civic engagement, and
direct action, we work to improve conditions in our neighborhoods in
the San Francisco / Oakland / Bay Area..
Email: info@cjjc.org
Web: http://www.cjjc.org
https://www.facebook.com/causajusta/
Keys: art; coalitions; consumer protection; direct action; economic justice;
housing; immigrants; initiatives; municipal government; people of
color; petitions; seniors; tenant rights
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Name: Center for a New American Dream
Text: Mission is is to improve well-being by inspiring and empowering all of
us to shift the ways we consume.
We work with individuals, institutions, businesses, and communities to
conserve natural resources, counter the commercialization of our
culture, support community engagement, and promote positive changes in
the way goods are produced and consumed. New Dream seeks to change
social norms around consumption and consumerism and to support the
local movement of individuals and communities pursuing lifestyle and
community action.
Web: http://www.newdream.org/
Keys: conservation; consumer lifestyle; simple living
[Contact data last verified 18 Oct 2015]
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Name: Center for Accessible Technology (CforAT)
Address: 3075 Adeline, Suite 220
Berkeley CA 94703
Voice: (510) 841-3224
Fax: (510) 841-7956
Text: CforAT's focus is on access to computers and technology for people
with disabilities.
We do this so children with disabilities can succeed in school, adults
with disabilities can find (and keep) jobs and all people with
disabilities can use the internet, email and benefit from the digital
revolution.
CforAT also provides business consulting services to corporations,
libraries and government entities. We provide assistance on creating
accessible websites and have a test bank of users with disabilities to
test products and services.
CforAT supports use of technology to promote independent living for
people with disabilities, providing information via online resources,
and engaging in advocacy work to support policies that expand access
to technology for people with disabilities, including the many people
with disabilities who are low-income.
Email: info1@cforat.org
Web: http://www.cforat.org
Keys: assistive technology; classes / courses; computers; consultants;
disabilities; diversity; low-income
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Name: Center for Agroecology & Sustainable Food Systems (CASFS)
Address: UC Santa Cruz
1156 High Street
Santa Cruz CA 95064
Voice: (831) 459-3240
Text: Mission is to research, develop, and advance sustainable food and
agricultural systems that are environmentally sound, economically
viable, socially responsible, nonexploitative, and that serve as a
foundation for future generations.
Through our research, education, and outreach programs, the Center
works to create agriculture and food systems that sustain both human
communities and the environments in which they live. The growing
public and academic interest in sustainable agriculture, organic food,
resource-conserving farming techniques, and issues of social justice
underscores the need for the type of work conducted by Center staff,
faculty, and students.
Email: casfs@ucsc.edu
Web: http://casfs.ucsc.edu
Keys: agroecology; classes / courses; environmental justice; food; organic
agriculture; research; Santa Cruz County; students
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Name: Center for Biological Diversity, SF Bay Area Office
Address: 1212 Broadway, Street #800
Oakland CA 94612
Voice: (510) 844-7100
Fax: (510) 844-7150
Text: We believe that the welfare of human beings is deeply linked to nature
— to the existence in our world of a vast diversity of wild animals
and plants. Because diversity has intrinsic value, and because its
loss impoverishes society, we work to secure a future for all species,
great and small, hovering on the brink of extinction. We do so through
science, law and creative media, with a focus on protecting the lands,
waters and climate that species need to survive.
We want those who come after us to inherit a world where the wild is
still alive.
Web: http://www.biologicaldiversity.org
Keys: biodiversity; bioregionalism; coastal environment; conservation; coral
reefs; creek restoration; dams; deforestation; desert; endangered
species / habitat; land use; science; wilderness
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Name: Center for Climate and Energy Solutions (C2ES)
Text: An independent, nonpartisan, nonprofit organization working to advance
strong policy and action to address the twin challenges of energy and
climate change.
Launched in 2011, C2ES is the successor to the Pew Center on Global
Climate Change, long recognized in the United States and abroad as an
influential and pragmatic voice on climate issues.
Web: http://www.c2es.org/
Keys: climate change; research materials
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Name: Center for Community Change
Text: Mission is to build the power and capacity of low-income people,
especially low-income people of color, to change their communities and
public policies for the better.
Right now, we’re empowering the people most affected by injustice to
lead movements to improve the policies that affect their lives.
Our focus areas include jobs and wages, immigration, retirement
security, affordable housing, racial justice and barriers to
employment for formerly incarcerated individuals.
Web: http://www.communitychange.org/
Keys: economic justice; leadership development; low-income; networking;
people of color; policy
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Name: Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR)
Text: Dedicated to advancing and protecting the rights guaranteed by the
United States Constitution and the Universal Declaration of Human
Rights. CCR is committed to the creative use of law as a positive
force for social change. We do that by combining cutting-edge
litigation, advocacy and strategic communications in work on a broad
range of civil and human rights issues.
Web: http://ccrjustice.org
Keys: human rights; law; lawyers; litigation; people of color; poverty
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Name: Center for Corporate Policy (CCP)
Text: A non-profit, non-partisan public interest organization working to
curb corporate abuses and make corporations publicly accountable.
Web: http://www.corporatepolicy.org/
Keys: corporations; policy
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Name: Center for Creative Land Recyling (CCLR or "see clear")
Address: 200 Frank H. Ogawa Plaza, 5th Floor
Oakland CA 94612
Voice: (415) 398-1080
Fax: (415) 398-5738
Text: The oldest and only national non-profit working exclusively to
champion land cleanup and reuse. We are an independent, third-party
force for the sustainable and equitable reuse of land. Our expertise
is in cleaning up and redeveloping vacant or contaminated properties,
sometimes referred to as "brownfields.” We offer trainings and
technical assistance for communities working to turn this land around,
and we advocate for policy change at the federal, state and local
levels to make land reuse possible in more places.
Web: http://www.cclr.org
Keys: brownfields; conservation; distribution of wealth; environmental
justice; housing; land reform; land use; legislation; low-income;
multiculturalism; people of color; policy; pollution; research; reuse;
sustainability; technical assistance; toxics; urban life; urban sprawl
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Name: Center for Democracy and Technology
Text: A champion of global online civil liberties and human rights, driving
policy outcomes that keep the Internet open, innovative, and free.
We believe in the power of the Internet. Whether it's facilitating
entrepreneurial endeavors, providing access to new markets and
opportunities, or creating a platform for free speech, the Internet
empowers, emboldens and equalizes people around the world.
We work to preserve the user-controlled nature of the Internet and
champion freedom of expression. We support laws, corporate policies,
and technology tools that protect the privacy of Internet users, and
advocate for stronger legal controls on government surveillance.
Web: http://www.cdt.org/
Keys: censorship; civil liberties; communications; computers; free speech;
Internet; technology
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Name: Center for Digital Democracy (CDD)
Text: Recognized as one of the leading consumer protection and privacy
organizations in the United States. Since its founding in 2001 (and
prior to that through its predecessor organization, the Center for
Media Education), CDD has been at the forefront of research, public
education, and advocacy protecting consumers in the digital age.
Web: http://www.democraticmedia.org/
Keys: consumer protection; democracy; diversity; free speech; Internet;
media; privacy; public health
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Name: Center For Digital Storytelling (CDS)
Address: 1250 Addison Street, Suite 103
Berkeley CA 94702
Voice: (510) 548-2065
Text: We create spaces for transforming lives and communities, through the
acts of listening to and sharing stories. Since 1993, we have
partnered with organizations around the world on projects in
StoryWork, digital storytelling, and other forms of digital media
production. Our public workshops support individuals in creating and
sharing stories.
Email: info@storycenter.org
Web: http://www.storycenter.org
http://www.silencespeaks.org
Keys: art; classes / courses; media; youth
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Name: Center for Ecoliteracy (CEL)
Address: The David Brower Center
2150 Allston Way, Suite 270
Berkeley CA 94704-1377
Voice: (510) 845-4595
Text: Advances ecological education in K–12 schools. We recognize that
students need to experience and understand how nature sustains life
and how to live accordingly.
We engage with school communities, foundations, filmmakers, and other
change agents to further education that is smart, hopeful, and vital.
Founded in 1995, the Center creates books and resources, offers
professional development, and provides strategic consulting. Our work
is based on systems thinking, leadership dynamics, and how young
people learn. We recognize nature as our teacher and that
sustainability is a community practice.
Email: info@ecoliteracy.org
Web: http://www.ecoliteracy.org/
Keys: community-building; ecology; food; literacy; public education;
sustainability; water
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Name: Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR)
Text: Conducts both professional research and public education. The
professional research is oriented towards filling important gaps in
the understanding of particular economic and social problems, or the
impact of specific policies. The public education portion of CEPR's
mission is to present the findings of professional research, both by
CEPR and others, in a manner that allows broad segments of the public
to know exactly what is at stake in major policy debates. An informed
public should be able to choose policies that lead to an improving
quality of life, both for people within the United States and around
the world.
Web: http://www.cepr.net
Keys: analysis; economics; media criticism; news on-line; policy; research
materials; researchers
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Name: Center for Economic and Social Rights (CESR)
Text: Works to promote economic and social justice through human rights. In
a world where poverty and inequality deprive entire communities of
dignity, justice and sometimes life, we seek to uphold the universal
human rights of every human being to education, health, food, water,
housing, work, and other economic, social and cultural rights
essential to human dignity.
Web: http://www.cesr.org/
Keys: economic justice; economics; human rights; international law; research
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Name: Center for Ecosystem Survival (CES)
Address: 699 Mississippi Street, Suite 106
San Francisco CA 94107
Voice: (415) 648-3392
Text: We are committed to inspiring participation and awareness in the
preservation of fragile ecosystems by providing opportunities for
personal direct action to save the diversity of life on Earth.
Since 1988 we have focused our efforts on protecting entire ecosystems
and natural communities, not just individual species, to ensure a long
term conservation strategy. We raise donations and awareness for these
biologically diverse ecosystems through our Adoption Programs,
Conservation Meters and Insect Discovery Lab. We partner with schools,
universities, zoos, aquariums, botanical gardens, natural history
museums, and science centers worldwide to protect wildlife and nature.
Email: info@savenature.org
Web: http://www.savenature.org/
Keys: biodiversity; conservation; coral reefs; history; museums;
rainforests; science; wilderness; wildlife
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Name: Center for Elders' Independence (CEI)
Address: 510 17th Street, Suite 400
Oakland CA 94612
Voice: (510) 433-1150
Fax: (510) 452-8836
Text: A non-profit Program of All-inclusive Care for the Elderly (PACE)
health plan for seniors age 55 and older who prefer not to move into a
nursing home but whose health problems make it impossible for them to
stay at home without the help of caregivers. Serving people in the
East Bay (of San Francisco Bay).
Provides high quality, affordable, integrated health care services to
the elderly, which promote autonomy, quality of life and the ability
of individuals to live in their communities.
Email: info@cei.elders.org
Web: http://www.cei.elders.org/
Keys: autonomy; health; long-term care; seniors; services
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Name: Center for Environmental Health (CEH)
Address: 2201 Broadway, Suite 302
Oakland CA 94612-3017
Voice: (510) 655-3900
Fax: (510) 655-9100
Text: Protects people from toxic chemicals by working with communities,
consumers, workers, government, and the private sector to demand and
support business practices that are safe for public health and the
environment.
Web: http://www.ceh.org/
Keys: appropriate technology; corporations; environmental justice;
litigation; public health
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Name: Center for Farmworker Families
Text: Mission is to promote awareness about the difficult life circumstances
of farmworker families while proactively inspiring improvement in
binational family life both in the United States and in Mexico.
We realize this purpose by engaging in the following activities:
Promoting the educational advancement of farm workers and their
family members working in agriculture, as well as family members who
are living on their farms of origin in the west central Mexico
countryside.
Supporting projects in both Mexico and California designed to
sustainably promote financial and nutritional well-being and
independence.
Examining the federal and state legal structures that govern the
lives and well-being of farmworkers and promoting the changes
necessary for improved livelihood and well-being.
Research and education.
Web: http://www.farmworkerfamily.org/
Keys: agriculture; family; immigrants; labor; law; Mexico; research
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Name: Center for Food Safety (West Coast Office) (CFS)
Address: 303 Sacramento Street, 2nd floor
San Francisco CA 94111
Voice: (415) 826-2770
Fax: (415) 826-0507
Text: A national non-profit public interest and environmental advocacy
organization working to protect human health and the environment by
curbing the use of harmful food production technologies and by
promoting organic and other forms of sustainable agriculture. CFS also
educates consumers concerning the definition of organic food and
products. CFS uses legal actions, groundbreaking scientific and policy
reports, books and other educational materials, market pressure and
grass roots campaigns through our True Food Network. CFS's successful
legal cases collectively represent a landmark body of case law on food
and agricultural issues.
Email: info@truefoodnow.org
Web: http://www.centerforfoodsafety.org/
Keys: animal liberation; books; educational curriculum; food; health;
litigation; media; organic agriculture; policy; science
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Name: Center for Health, Environment and Justice (CHEJ)
Text: Helps build healthy communities nationwide. Since its founding in
1981, CHEJ has grown into the nation’s leading resource for grassroots
environmental activism, a ground-breaking, progressive organization
with a vision for clean, green neighborhoods built from hard-won
experience fighting for environmental justice.
Web: http://www.chej.org
Keys: community-building; environmental justice; technical assistance;
toxics
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Name: Center for Human Rights and Privacy (CeHRP)
Text: Dedicated to the promotion of human rights and privacy in the United
States. Our current project involves the use of surveillance
technologies by local police and other government agencies.
CeHRP was founded by Mike Katz-Lacabe and Margarita Lacabe and
welcomes the collaboration of other human rights and privacy
activists.
Web: https://www.cehrp.org/
Keys: police accountability; privacy; surveillance
[Contact data last verified 18 Feb 2017]
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Name: Center for Independence of the Disabled (CID)
Address: 2001 Winward Way, Suite 103
San Mateo CA 94404
Voice: (650) 645-1780
(650) 522-9313 (TTY)
Fax: (650) 645-1785
Text: A private, nonprofit corporation located in San Mateo, California.
Incorporated in 1979, CID is a consumer-driven, community-based,
services and advocacy organization serving San Mateo County. By
federal mandate, the majority of our Staff, Management, and Board of
Directors consist of people with disabilities.
Web: http://cidsanmateo.org
Keys: disabilities; San Mateo County; self-determination
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Name: Center for Independent Living (Berkeley) (The CIL)
Address: 3075 Adeline St, Suite 100
Berkeley CA 94703
Voice: (510) 841-4776
Text: The CIL supports and empowers people who aspire to achieve beyond the
boundaries of the expectations others have placed on them.
Email: info@thecil.org
Web: http://www.thecil.org/
Keys: autonomy; classes / courses; disabilities; employment; homelessness;
housing; mental health; seniors; sports; technical assistance; youth
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Name: Center for International Environmental Law (CIEL)
Text: Since 1989, CIEL has used the power of law to protect the environment,
promote human rights, and ensure a just and sustainable society.
With offices in Washington, DC, and Geneva, Switzerland, CIEL’s team
of attorneys, policy experts, and support staff works to provide legal
counsel and advocacy, policy research, and capacity building across
our three program areas: Climate & Energy, Environmental Health, and
People, Land, & Resources.
Web: http://www.ciel.org/
Keys: ecology; energy; health; human rights; law; legal services; policy;
research; sustainability
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Name: Center for International Policy (CIP)
Text: Promotes cooperation, transparency and accountability in global
relations. Through research and advocacy, our programs address the
most urgent threats to our planet: war, corruption, inequality and
climate change.
CIP's scholars, journalists, activists and former government officials
provide a unique mixture of access to high-level officials, issue-area
expertise, media savvy and strategic vision. We work to inform the
public and decision makers in the United States and in international
organizations on policies to make the world more just, peaceful and
sustainable.
Web: http://www.ciponline.org/
Keys: climate change; foreign policy; global issues; human rights;
militarism; policy; think tanks
[Contact data last verified 14 Apr 2017]
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Name: Center for Investigative Reporting (CIR)
Address: 1400 65th Street, Suite 200
Emeryville CA 94608
Voice: (510) 809-3160
Fax: (510) 849-6141
Text: Mission is to engage and empower the public through investigative
journalism and groundbreaking storytelling in order to spark action,
improve lives and protect our democracy.
CIR is among the most innovative, credible and relevant media
organizations in the country. Reveal – our website, public radio
program, podcast and social media platform – is where we publish our
multiplatform work.
Our award-winning journalists hold the powerful accountable and reveal
government fraud and waste of taxpayer funds, human rights violations,
environmental degradation and threats to public safety.
Web: https://www.revealnews.org/
Keys: investigative journalism; media criticism; news on-line; research
materials
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Name: Center for Latin American Studies (CLAS)
Address: 2334 Bowditch Street (between Durant and Haste)
Berkeley CA 94720
Voice: (510) 642-2088
Fax: (510) 642-3260
Text: A National Resource Center dedicated to promoting research and
community awareness about issues affecting Latin America.
The Center works to:
host public events that bring leading scholars, policymakers and
social leaders to the Berkeley community;
support faculty and student research;
bring information about Latin America to a wider audience through
our website and publications;
build networks among Latin Americanist scholars, students and
practitioners.
Email: clas@berkeley.edu
Web: http://www.clas.berkeley.edu/
Keys: Latin America; public education; researchers
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Name: Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies in Religion and Ministry (CLGS)
Address: Pacific School of Religion
1798 Scenic Avenue
Berkeley CA 94709
Voice: (510) 849-8206
Fax: (510) 849-8212
Text: CLGS was established at Pacific School of Religion in Berkeley,
California and opened its doors in the fall of 2000.
The Center serves three distinct but overlapping constituencies: the
world of academic religious scholarship; faith communities; and
lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people and organizations. For
each of these constituent groups, CLGS is committed to providing
programming and support for research, resources, education for
leadership, and community-building/advocacy. All programming is
devoted to carrying out the Center's fundamental mission:
Email: info@clgs.org
Web: http://www.clgs.org/
Keys: community-building; leadership development; religion; research; sexual
minorities
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Name: Center for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender Art and Culture (QCC)
Address: c/o African American Art and Culture Complex
762 Fulton Street
San Francisco CA 94102
Voice: (415) 935-5948
Text: A multiracial community-building organization that fosters the
artistic, economic and cultural development of San Francisco's LGBT
community. We implement our mission by operating programs that
commission and present Queer artists, that promote the development of
culturally diverse Queer arts organizations and that document
significant Queer arts events taking place in San Francisco.
By presenting, exhibiting, screening and documenting queer artists'
work, Qcc contributes to the development of a multicultural
perspective on the Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender experience.
Email: Managing@queerculturalcenter.org
Web: http://www.queerculturalcenter.org/
Keys: art; sexual minorities
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Name: Center for Media & Democracy (PR Watch)
Text: A national watchdog group that conducts in-depth investigations into
corruption and the undue influence of corporations on media and
democracy.
The findings of CMD's investigative journalism are regularly cited by
the leading national and state newspapers in the U.S., including the
New York Times, the Guardian, and the Washington Post. CMD's reporting
is credited by news shows on major broadcast stations including HBO,
Showtime, PBS, NBC, CBS, and others, and has also been featured on
in-depth news programs, such as Moyers & Company, Democracy Now, and
the Thom Hartmann Show, as well as NPR and other public broadcasting
agencies, such as the BBC and CBC.
Web: http://www.prwatch.org/
http://www.sourcewatch.org
Keys: democracy; investigative journalism; media criticism; news on-line;
propaganda; public relations; researchers; watchdog groups
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Name: Center for Neighborhood Technology (CNT)
Text: A nonprofit research and advocacy organization committed to improving
urban economies and environments across the United States. We do this
through innovation and by researching and analyzing urban problems,
testing and promoting economically efficient and environmentally sound
solutions, and demonstrating the value of investing in sustainable
solutions.
We deliver game-changing research, tools, and solutions to create
sustainable + equitable communities. We help neighborhoods, cities,
and regions work better, for everyone.
Web: https://www.cnt.org
Keys: neighborhoods; researchers; sustainability; technology;
transportation; urban life
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Name: Center for Nonprofit Success
Text: A nonprofit organization whose mission is to provide the training,
knowledge and resources to help nonprofit organizations succeed. We
believe that the most important asset in an organization is its
people, and our programs and services are designed with your most
important asset in mind.
Offerings include mentoring, workshops, a job bank, consulting, and
research.
Web: http://www.cfnps.org/
Keys: classes / courses; consultants; employment; fundraising; mentoring;
researchers
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Name: Center for Political Education
Address: 522 Valencia Street
San Francisco CA 94110
Voice: (415) 431-1918
Text: A resource for political organizations on the left, progressive social
movements, the working class and people of color.
The CPE’s political approach is non-sectarian, democratic, and
committed to a critical analysis of local, regional and global
politics. We believe that organizing and activism grounded in strong
theory and ideas are important tools for movement building.
Web: http://www.politicaleducation.org/
Keys: analysis; education; labor; people of color
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Name: Center for Popular Economics
Text: A nonprofit collective of political economists based in Amherst, MA.
Since our founding in 1979, thousands of people have participated in
our workshops and Institutes. Our programs and publications demystify
the economy and put useful economic tools in the hands of people
fighting for social and economic justice. We examine root causes of
economic inequality and injustice including systems of oppression
based on race, class, gender, nation and ethnicity.
CPE provides a forum for activists, organizers, educators, and
progressive economists to come together, learn from one another and
work to build a movement for social and economic justice.
Web: http://www.PopularEconomics.org
Keys: analysis; class; collectives; economics; media criticism; research
materials
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Name: Center for Public Environmental Oversight (CPEO)
Address: c/o PSC
278-A Hope Street
Mountain View CA 94041
Voice: (650) 961-8918
Text: Promotes and facilitates public participation in the oversight of
environmental activities at federal facilities, private "Superfund"
sites, and Brownfields.
CPEO educates public stakeholders on both the process and technologies
for cleanup and environmental protection. CPEO conducts sites visits,
convenes workshops and forums, publishes articles, and maintains the
web-based "technology tree."
Email: cpeo@cpeo.org
Web: http://www.cpeo.org
Keys: brownfields; economic conversion; militarism; national government;
toxics
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Name: Center for Public Integrity (CPI)
Text: One of the country's oldest and largest nonpartisan, nonprofit
investigative news organizations. Our mission: To serve democracy by
revealing abuses of power, corruption and betrayal of public trust by
powerful public and private institutions, using the tools of
investigative journalism.
Web: http://www.publicintegrity.org
Keys: analysis; books; government; investigative journalism; newsletters;
research
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Name: Center for Reproductive Rights
Text: Uses the law to advance reproductive freedom as a fundamental human
right that all governments are legally obligated to protect, respect,
and fulfill.
Web: http://www.reproductiverights.org
Keys: legislation; policy; reproductive rights
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Name: Center for Responsive Politics (CRP)
Text: The nation's premier research group tracking money in U.S. politics
and its effect on elections and public policy. Nonpartisan,
independent and nonprofit, the organization aims to create a more
educated voter, an involved citizenry and a more transparent and
responsive government.
Web: http://www.opensecrets.org/
Keys: campaign finance reform; elections; media; national government; news;
Political Action Committees (PACs); researchers
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Name: Center for Sex and Culture
Address: 2261 Market Street Box 455-A
San Francisco CA 94114
Text: Mission is to provide judgment-free education, cultural events, a
library/media archive, and other resources to audiences across the
sexual and gender spectrum; and to research and disseminate factual
information, framing and informing issues of public policy and public
health.
Aims to provide a community center for education, advocacy, research,
and support to the widest range of people. We offer classes that run
the gamut from informational to experiential. We host classes and
cultural events as well as offer our space to other organizations and
teachers as scheduling allows.
Located at 1349 Mission Street (between 9th and 10th) in San
Francisco.
Email: info@sexandculture.org
Web: http://www.sexandculture.org/
Keys: archiving; classes / courses; diversity; framing; libraries; policy;
public health; researchers; sex
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Name: Center for Story-based Strategy (CSS)
Address: POBox 71928
Oakland CA 94612
Text: A national movement-building organization dedicated to harnessing the
power of narrative for social change.
We offer training and strategic support to social justice
organizations and alliances to change the story on the issues that
matter most.
Our TRAININGS prepare change-makers working on many issues to imagine,
facilitate and execute story-based strategies with community
leadership.
We work in PARTNERSHIP with frontline groups to facilitate an analysis
of narrative power, develop imagination and implement visions for
change.
Email: info@storybasedstrategy.org
Web: http://www.storybasedstrategy.org
Keys: analysis; classes / courses; communications; leadership development;
media; media criticism
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Name: Center for Sustainable Economy (CSE)
Text: A 25-year-old environmental economics think tank that works to speed
the transition to a sustainable society. We do this by analyzing the
impacts of public policy, programs, and projects, by developing
creative solutions for government agencies, businesses, non-profits,
and educators, and by providing expert support for legislative,
administrative, and legal campaigns. We keep our organization lean and
effective by minimizing administrative staff and overhead and by
relying on a network of distinguished fellows with expertise in the
fields of ecological economics, conservation biology, sustainability
analysis, and public interest law. We serve our partners by providing
expertise they need but also take initiative on our own campaigns when
key opportunities arise.
Web: http://sustainable-economy.org/
Keys: analysis; conservation; economics; law; legislation; policy;
sustainability; think tanks
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Name: Center for the Advancement of the Steady State Economy (CASSE)
Text: Economic growth, with all of its downsides, is clearly unsustainable
in the 21st century. Long-term recession is no panacea either. A
steady state economy is the sustainable alternative to perpetual
economic growth.
Economic growth was never a magic bullet; it is simply an increase in
the production and consumption of goods and services–it can’t possibly
lead to a sustainable outcome. In contrast, the steady state economy
provides the means for present and future generations to achieve a
high quality of life.
Web: http://steadystate.org
Keys: ecology; economics; limits to economic growth; policy; population
control; sustainability
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Name: Center for the Study of the Americas (CENSA)
Text: Dedicated to discussing the realities and challenges we face in the
age of globalization. Due to the dominance of international corporate
interests and the collusion of political elites, much of the world’s
populace lives in misery, alienation and conflict while the planet
earth is ravaged by imperial wars and an ecological crisis.
Web: http://globalalternatives.org
Keys: agroecology; books; consultants; food security; researchers
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Name: Center for Third World Organizing (CTWO)
Address: 900 Alice Street, Suite 300
Oakland CA 94607
Voice: (510) 201-0080
Fax: (510) 433-0908
Text: A racial-justice organization dedicated to building a social-justice
movement led by people of color. We were established in 1980 as a
training and resource center that promotes and sustains direct-action
organizing in communities of color in the United States. CTWO provides
organizer training programs, including the model Movement Activist
Apprenticeship Program (MAAP), and builds an active network of
organizations and activists of color to achieve racial justice in its
fullest dimensions. Additionally, CTWO also provides consultation and
customized training.
Email: ctwo@ctwo.org
Web: http://www.ctwo.org
Keys: classes / courses; consultants; direct action; low-income; networking;
people of color
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Name: Center for Urban Education about Sustainable Agriculture (CUESA)
Address: One Ferry Building, Suite 50
San Francisco CA 94111
Voice: (415) 291-3276 (291-FARM)
Fax: (415) 291-3275
Text: A 501(c)3 nonprofit organization founded in 1994 to educate urban
consumers about sustainable agriculture and to create links between
urban dwellers and local farmers. We have managed the Ferry Plaza
Farmers Market in San Francisco since 1999.
CUESA’s educational initiatives include cooking demonstrations, farm
tours, youth programs, a weekly email newsletter, and more.
Email: info@cuesa.org
Web: http://cuesa.org
Keys: agriculture; farmers markets; food; sustainability; urban life
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Name: Center for Voting and Democracy (FairVote)
Text: Advances systemic electoral reform to achieve a fully participatory
and truly representative democracy that respects every vote and every
voice in every election. We work toward these goals by providing
advocates with innovative research and reform strategy. We promote
ranked choice voting (“instant runoff”), a constitutionally protected
right to vote, a national popular vote for president, and, most
fundamentally, fair representation voting forms of proportional
representation.
Web: http://www.fairvote.org/
Keys: elections; proportional representation
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Name: Center on Juvenile and Criminal Justice (CJCJ)
Address: 40 Boardman Place
San Francisco CA 94103
Voice: (415) 621-5661
Fax: (415) 621-5466
Text: A nonprofit nonpartisan organization whose mission is to reduce
society’s reliance on incarceration as a solution to social problems.
In pursuit of this mission, CJCJ provides direct services, technical
assistance, and policy analysis that work in unison to promote a
balanced and humane criminal justice system designed to reduce
incarceration and enhance long-term public safety.
Email: dmacallair@cjcj.org
Web: http://www.cjcj.org
Keys: criminal justice; incarceration; juvenile justice; policy; technical
assistance; youth
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Name: Centre for Research on Globalisation (CRG)
Text: An independent research and media organization based in Montreal. The
CRG is a registered non-profit organization in the province of Quebec,
Canada.
In addition to the Global Research websites, the Centre is involved in
book publishing, support to humanitarian projects as well as
educational outreach activities including the organization of public
conferences and lectures. The Centre also acts as a think tank on
crucial economic and geopolitical issues.
The Global Research website at www.globalresearch.ca publishes news
articles, commentary, background research and analysis on a broad
range of issues, focusing on social, economic, strategic and
environmental issues.
Web: http://globalresearch.ca/
Keys: analysis; corporate-controlled globalization; economics; editorial
comment; news on-line; research
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Name: Centro Legal de la Raza
Address: 3400 East 12th Street
Oakland CA 94601
Voice: (510) 437-1554
Fax: (510) 437-9164
Text: A comprehensive legal services agency protecting and advancing the
rights of immigrant, low-income, and Latino communities through
bilingual legal representation, education, and advocacy. By combining
quality legal services with know-your-rights education and youth
development, Centro Legal promotes access to justice for thousands of
individuals and families each year throughout Northern and Central
California.
Email: info@centrolegal.org
Web: http://centrolegal.org/
Keys: immigrants; Latinas / Latinos; legal services; low-income
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Name: ChangeLab Solutions
Address: 2201 Broadway, Suite 502
Oakland CA 94612
Voice: (510) 302-3380
Text: Creates innovative laws and policies to ensure everyday health for
all, whether that’s providing access to affordable, healthy food and
beverages, creating safe opportunities for physical activity, or
ensuring the freedom to enjoy smokefree air and clean water. Our
solutions address all aspects of a just, vital and thriving community,
like food, housing, child care, schools, transportation, public
safety, jobs, and the environment.
Web: http://changelabsolutions.org
Keys: analysis; architecture; classes / courses; land use; law; lawyers;
policy; public health; technical assistance; tobacco; transportation
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Name: ChangeLab Solutions
Address: 2201 Broadway, Suite 502
Oakland CA 94612
Voice: (510) 302-3380
Text: Creates innovative laws and policies to ensure everyday health for
all, whether that’s providing access to affordable, healthy food and
beverages, creating safe opportunities for physical activity, or
ensuring the freedom to enjoy smokefree air and clean water. Our
solutions address all aspects of a just, vital and thriving community,
like food, housing, child care, schools, transportation, public
safety, jobs, and the environment. Throughout the nation, we work with
neighborhoods, cities, and states to transform communities with laws
and policies that create lasting change. Our unique approach, backed
by decades of solid research and proven results, helps the public and
private sectors make communities more livable, especially for those
who are at highest risk because they have the fewest resources.
Web: http://changelabsolutions.org
Keys: analysis; architecture; children; classes / courses; ecology; food;
land use; lawyers; policy; public health; technical assistance;
tobacco; transportation; urban life
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Name: Charlotte Maxwell Complementary Clinic (CMCC)
Address: 610 16th Street, Suite 426
Oakland CA 94612
Voice: (510) 601-7660
Fax: (510) 601-7669
Text: A California state licensed free clinic and 501(c)(3) organization
providing complementary integrative medical treatments and safety net
social services to low-income women with cancer since 1991.
Web: http://www.charlottemaxwell.org
Keys: healthcare access; low-income; services; women
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Name: Chelsea Green Publishing
Text: The publishing leader for books on the politics and practice of
sustainable living. We are a founding member of the Green Press
Initiative and have been printing books on recycled paper since 1985,
when our first list of books appeared. We lead the industry both in
terms of content—foundational books on renewable energy, green
building, organic agriculture, eco-cuisine, and ethical business—and
in terms of environmental practice, printing 95 percent of our books
on recycled paper with a minimum 30 percent post-consumer waste and
aiming for 100 percent whenever possible. This approach is a perfect
example of what is called a ”triple bottom line“ practice, one that
benefits people, planet, and profit, and the emerging new model for
sustainable business in the 21st century.
Web: http://www.chelseagreen.com
Keys: book publishers; building materials; organic agriculture; recycling;
renewable energy; sustainability
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Name: Chelsea Manning Support Network
Text: Chelsea E. Manning is a former all-source intelligence analyst for the
U.S. Defense Department. She writes extensively for The Guardian and
on Medium about issues like transparency, free speech, civil
liberties, queer and trans rights, and computer security, as well as
her own life and experience. She also tweets regularly at @xychelsea.
and posts photos at @xychelsea87.
Chelsea was in prison for seven years for disclosing military and
diplomatic information to the public that, among other things, exposed
the “true nature of 21st century asymmetric warfare.” She came out as
a trans woman in 2013, while serving in an all male prison at Fort
Leavenworth Kansas. Her 35 year sentence was commuted by President
Obama in 2017.
Web: http://www.chelseamanning.org/
Keys: incarceration; judiciation; militarism; solidarity; whistleblowing
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Name: Chiapas Support Committee (CSC)
Address: POBox 3421
Oakland CA 94609
Voice: (510) 654-9587
Text: A grass roots all-volunteer organization in Oakland, California. We
support indigenous and campesino organizations in Mexico. Currently,
we work with the Zapatista Good Government Junta in the Caracol of La
Garrucha and its education coordinators to build and equip schools,
support training and continuing education of schoolteachers and
provide needed supplies for students.
In the Bay Area we provide public information about Chiapas through
public events and workshops, our newsletter, Chiapas Update, our
listserv, web site and CompaManuel blog. We organize delegations to
Chiapas and also recruit and certify human rights observers and
volunteers.
Email: cezmat@igc.org
Web: http://www.chiapas-support.org
Keys: indigenous people; material aid; Mexico; Zapatistas
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Name: Child Care Links
Address: 6601 Owens Drive, Suite 100
Pleasanton CA 94588
Voice: (925) 417-8733
Fax: (925) 730-4942
Text: Acts as a link between government social service agencies and
families. Income-eligible families can receive needed funds to pay for
child care and education on how to find quality child care. Child Care
Providers, parents and employers receive valuable one-on-one support
and education from the agency. Free child care referrals are provided
to parents in the Tri-Valley area.
Email: mail@childcarelinks.org
Web: http://www.childcarelinks.org
Keys: Alameda County (below Oakland); childcare; directories; education;
low-income
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Name: Child Family Health International (CFHI)
Address: 2369 Ocean Avenue #200
San Francisco CA 94127
Voice: (415) 957-9000
Fax: (415) 840-0486
Text: Provides community-based Global Health Education Programs for students
and institutions. Our unique model fosters reciprocal partnerships and
empowerment in local communities, transforming perspectives about
self, healing and global citizenship.
CFHI is an NGO in Special Consultative Status with the ECOSOC of the
United Nations.
Web: http://www.cfhi.org
Keys: children; family; global issues; health; healthcare access; hospitals;
science; students; travel
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Name: Children's Council of San Francisco
Address: 445 Church Street (between 16th and 17th Streets)
San Francisco CA 94114
Voice: (415) 276-2900
Text: Connects families to child care that meets their needs and works with
parents, providers, and community partners to make quality child care
and early education a reality for all children in our city.
Web: http://www.childrenscouncil.org
Keys: childcare; children; classes / courses; family; food; health;
low-income; nutrition; public education; services
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Name: Children's Defense Fund - California (Oakland office) (CDF-CA)
Address: 405 14th Sreet., Suite 1012
Oakland CA 94612
Voice: (510) 663-3224
Fax: (510) 663–1783
Text: A national child advocacy organization founded by Marian Wright
Edelman that has worked relentlessly for over 40 years to ensure a
level playing field for all children. CDF-CA was established in 1998
to meet the needs of underserved children in the state of
California.With offices in Los Angeles, Oakland, Sacramento and Long
Beach, CDF-CA champions policies and programs that lift children out
of poverty, ensure all children have access to health coverage and
care and a quality education, and invest in our justice-involved
youth.
Web: http://www.cdfca.org
Keys: children; disabilities; family; healthcare access; lobbying
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Name: Chinese for Affirmative Action (CAA)
Address: 17 Walter U Lum Place (near Portsmouth Square Park)
San Francisco CA 94108
Voice: (415) 274-6750
Fax: (415) 397-8770
Text: Founded in 1969 to protect the civil and political rights of Chinese
Americans and to advance multiracial democracy in the United States.
Today, CAA is a progressive voice in and on behalf of the broader
Asian and Pacific American community. We advocate for systemic change
that protects immigrant rights, promotes language diversity, and
remedies racial injustice.
Email: info[at]caasf[dot]org
Web: http://www.caasf.org
Keys: affirmative action; Asian Americans; civil rights; employment;
immigrants
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Name: Choice Medical Group
Address: 400 29th Street, Suite 301
Oakland CA 94609
Voice: (510) 899-7099
(800) 338-1361
Text: Has been providing quality abortion care to the women of Northern
California for over 25 years. We are dedicated to the highest standard
of medical care in a comforting, supportive atmosphere, and thousands
of women rely on us each year.
We are committed to providing the support and education you need to
make the best health care decisions. The decision to terminate a
pregnancy is not an easy one to make. We are sensitive to the thought,
and sometimes confusion or stress, involved in the decision to
terminate a pregnancy.
Web: http://www.choicemedicalgroup.com/
Keys: abortion rights; healthcare access
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Name: Citizens for Balanced Growth
Address: 661 South N Street
Livermore CA 94550
Voice: (925) 449-8147
Text: A Tri-Valley (Livermore, Pleasanton, Sunol, Dublin) registered 501(c)
(3) non-profit group in California. Founded in 1982, we strive to
support activities which enhance the quality of life for residents of
this beautiful convergence of valleys and hills. Such a special place
is worth protecting.
Email: info@citizensforbalancedgrowth.org
Web: http://www.citizensforbalancedgrowth.org
Keys: Alameda County (below Oakland); conservation; development; endangered
species / habitat; environmental justice; land use; open space;
pollution; population control; sustainability; toxics; transportation;
urban sprawl; waste; watchdog groups; water; wilderness
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Name: Citizens for Constitutional Local Government (CCLG)
Text: CCLG is a nonprofit organization formed to provide full and material
disclosure of all the factors that can have profound effects on your
decision to buy into an Home Owners Assocation (HOA) controlled
property. We believe that the regulation of planned communities must
be under local government statutes to provide for the constitutional
protection of homeowner rights.
Our mission has been to enlighten the public, the media and state
legislators as to the real nature of the HOA legal scheme. This
enlightenment, this broad educational effort, will result in a more
informed understanding 1) of the HOA legal structure that rejects our
constitutional system of government, which far outweighs the public
benefits, and (2) state legislative protection and cooperation with
HOAs.
Web: http://pvtgov.org
Keys: civil liberties; government; homeowners associations; law; private
government
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Name: Citizens for Healthy Options In Children's Education (CHOICE)
Text: Launched in 1994 by a group of concerned parents to promote a choice
of wholesome plant-based meals and nutrition education in our nation's
schools. It is supported entirely by individual contributions.
CHOICE produces and distributes teaching materials, supports parents
working for change in their schools, assists school administrators and
food service providers in developing healthier meals, encourages
students to select healthier food choices, and reports on similar
efforts throughout the U.S.
Web: http://www.choiceusa.net/
Keys: educational curriculum; nutrition; public education; students;
veganism / vegetarianism
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Name: Citizens for Tax Justice (CTJ)
Text: A 501(c)(4) public interest research and advocacy organization
focusing on federal, state and local tax policies and their impact
upon our nation. CTJ’s mission is to give ordinary people a greater
voice in the development of tax laws. Against the armies of special
interest lobbyists for corporations and the wealthy, CTJ fights for:
Tax fairness for middle and low-income families
Requiring the wealthy to pay their fair share
Closing corporate tax loopholes
Adequately funding important government services
Reducing the federal debt
Taxation that minimizes distortion of economic markets
Web: http://www.ctj.org/
Keys: corporations; distribution of wealth; researchers; taxes
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Name: Citizens’ Climate Lobby (Alameda County chapter) (CCL Alameda County)
Text: We exist to create the political will for climate solutions by
enabling individual breakthroughs in the exercise of personal and
political power.
CCL Alameda County started in 2014 and has been working to build
political will for Carbon Fee and Dividend in our area ever since. We
are building a strong relationship with Representative Barbara Lee in
congressional District CA-13 and with our Senators Boxer and
Feinstein.
In addition we have had numerous letters to the editor and Op-ed’s
published in the Oakland Tribune, SF Chronicle, and the LA Times. We
work to find support for climate action at a federal level from local
civic leaders, the business community, communities of faith, and other
NGOs.
Web: http://citizensclimatelobby.org/chapters/CA_Alameda_County/
http://citizensclimatelobby.org/
Keys: climate change; letter-writing; lobbying; national government
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Name: City and County of San Francisco Department of the Environment (SF
Environment)
Address: 1455 Market Street, Suite 1200
San Francisco CA 94103
Voice: (415) 355-3700
Text: Creates visionary policies and innovative programs that promote social
equity, protect human health, and lead the way toward a sustainable
future. We put our mission into action by mobilizing communities and
providing the resources needed to safeguard our homes, our city, and
ultimately our planet.
Topics we work on include: Biodiversity, Climate Change, Energy,
Environmental Justice, Green Building, Green Business Program, School
Education Program, Toxics Reduction, Transportation, Urban Forestry
and Urban Agriculture, Zero Waste.
Email: environment@sfgov.org
Web: http://sfenvironment.org
Keys: building materials; climate change; composting; directories; energy;
environmental justice; municipal government; policy; recycling;
toxics; transportation; waste
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Name: City CarShare
Address: 28 Geary Street, Suite 590
San Francisco CA 94108
Voice: (415) 995-8588
Fax: (415) 995-8589
Text: In 2001, City CarShare was launched by transportation visionaries as a
Bay Area nonprofit with the goal to make our community a more livable
place. Carsharing means fewer cars on the road, less congestion, and
less pollution — plus significant savings for you. At City CarShare we
have the best rates, the greenest fleet, and the most secure insurance
coverage of any carsharing organization.
Email: memberservices@citycarshare.org
Web: http://www.citycarshare.org
Keys: automobiles; noncorporate economy; sharing; transportation; urban life
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Name: City Lights Bookstore
Address: 261 Columbus Avenue (near Broadway)
San Francisco CA 94133
Voice: (415) 362-8193
Fax: (415) 362-4921
Text: The nation's first all-paperback bookstore, City Lights has expanded
several times over the years; we now offer three floors of both
new-release hardcovers and quality paperbacks from all of the major
publishing houses, along with an impressive range of titles from
smaller, harder-to-find, specialty publishers. The store features an
extensive and in-depth selection of poetry, fiction, translations,
politics, history, philosophy, music, spirituality, and more, with a
staff whose special book interests in many fields contribute to the
hand-picked quality of what you see on the shelves.
Web: http://www.citylights.com
Keys: book sellers; history; poetry
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Name: City of Refuge United Church of Christ
Address: 8400 Enterprise Way
Oakland CA 94621
Voice: (510) 633-6316
Text: We all need community. When access to existing communities is not
available, marginalized people must seek to develop community for and
among themselves. We at City of Refuge UCC are giving birth to a
fresh, emerging Christian community. We believe that now, as in the
time of Jesus’ earthly ministry, seemingly marginalized people respond
to a community of openness and inclusivity, where other people from
the edge gather. City of Refuge UCC welcomes people to be who they are
by embracing a theology of acceptance – a radical inclusivity that
leaves no one behind.
Email: info@cityofrefugeucc.org
Web: http://www.sfrefuge.org
Keys: religion; sexual minorities
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Name: City Repair
Text: Facilitates artistic and ecologically-oriented placemaking through
projects that honor the interconnection of human communities and the
natural world. City Repair has accomplished many projects through a
mostly volunteer staff and thousands of volunteer citizen activists.
We provide support, resources, and opportunities to help diverse
communities reclaim the culture, power, and joy that we all deserve.
When we do community builds, we primarily work with Permaculture
Landscaping, Natural Building, and Intersection Repair (painting the
street to make a plaza).
Web: http://cityrepair.org/
Keys: community-building; land use; neighborhoods; urban life
[Contact data last verified 22 Apr 2018]
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Name: City Slicker Farms
Address: 1625 16th Street
Oakland CA 94607
Voice: (510) 763-4241
Text: Mission is to empower West Oakland community members to meet the
immediate and basic need for healthy organic food for themselves and
their families by creating high-yield urban farms and backyard
gardens.
Our programs are an immediate solution to West Oakland’s lack of real
choice for fresh, affordable, healthy food. Our programs also have a
long-term sustainable impact, changing underutilized urban landscapes
into ones that provide healthy, affordable food and improve the
environment for generations to come.
Email: info[at]cityslickerfarms[dot]org
Web: http://www.cityslickerfarms.org/
Keys: food; local economy; local food; organic agriculture; self-reliance;
self-sufficiency; sustainability; urban life
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Name: Civicorps Schools
Address: 101 Myrtle Street
Oakland CA 94607
Voice: (510) 992-7800
Fax: (510) 992-7950
Text: Mission is to re-engage young adults, so they can earn a high school
diploma, gain job skills, pursue college, and embark on family
sustaining careers. All of our students have dropped out of high
school, are low-income, and 97% live in poverty. Almost all (99%)
students are an ethnic minority, 39% have been convicted of a crime,
50% are homeless, 45% are single parents, 25% are former foster youth,
and 40% have learning disabilities and/or emotional disturbance.
Not only do we have a 72% graduation rate (one of the highest in
Oakland), but also one year after graduation, 73% of our graduates are
still enrolled in college and/or employed. This success ripples out
into the community, creating a legacy of achievement for our city.
Email: info@cvcorps.org
Web: http://www.cvcorps.org/
Keys: educational curriculum; leadership development; youth
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Name: Civil Liberties Defense Center (CLDC)
Text: Supports movements that seek to dismantle the political and economic
structures at the root of social inequality and environmental
destruction. We provide litigation, education, legal and strategic
resources to strengthen and embolden their success.
CLDC’s projects educate people about their rights and why their rights
are important, we defend front line activists, and expose and confront
the persistent erosion of our civil liberties and the Bill of Rights.
We believe knowledge is power, when, people have the tools and
understanding to take action and demand that the government honor all
their rights, then grassroots activism will be the best chance of
exacting necessary change. CLDC educates, supports, and defends
grassroots activists.
Web: http://www.cldc.org/
Keys: civil liberties; civil rights; free speech; lawyers; legal defense;
litigation
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Name: Class Action
Text: Inspires action to end classism and extreme inequality by providing
change-makers with tools, training and inspiration to raise awareness,
shift cultural beliefs about social class, build cross-class
solidarity, and transform institutions and systems.
Class Action provides a dynamic framework and analysis, as well as a
safe space, for people of all backgrounds to identify and address
issues of class and classism. We do this through powerful interactive
trainings, workshops, presentations, organizational consulting, and
public education.
Web: http://www.classism.org
Keys: class; classes / courses; consultants; economic justice
[Contact data last verified 07 Jan 2017]
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Name: Clean Energy Action
Text: Works to accelerate the transition to a post-fossil-fuel world built
on clean energy by:
Educating citizens on the impacts of fossil fuel use and on clean
energy options
Supporting data-driven, informed action in coal-reliant states
Conducting and disseminating research on coal supplies and utilities
Envisioning the integrated renewable energy future
Web: http://cleanenergyaction.org
Keys: renewable energy; researchers
[Contact data last verified 22 Jan 2018]
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Name: Clean Water Action (CWA)
Address: 350 Frank H. Ogawa Plaza, Suite 200
Oakland CA 94612
Voice: (415) 369-9160
Fax: (415) 369-9180
Text: A one million member organization of diverse people and groups joined
together to protect our environment, health, economic well-being and
community quality of life. Our goals include clean, safe and
affordable water; prevention of health threatening pollution; creation
of environmentally safe jobs and businesses; and empowerment of people
to make democracy work. Clean Water Action organizes strong grassroots
groups and coalitions and campaigns to elect environmental candidates
and solve environmental and community problems.
Web: http://www.cleanwateraction.org
Keys: health; pollution; water
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Name: Climate Ark
Text: A climate change and global warming portal, search engine and newsfeed
that promotes public policy that addresses global climate change
through reductions in carbon dioxide and other emissions, renewable
energy, energy conservation and efficiency, and ending deforestation.
Web: http://www.climateark.org/
Keys: archiving; climate change; conservation; deforestation; energy; global
warming; news on-line; policy; renewable energy; research materials
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Name: Climate Disobedience Center
Text: Purpose is to serve as a catalyst for direct action, creating points
of vivid moral clarity, emboldening both climate activists and the
unlikeliest of allies, to capture the heart and soul of the climate
debate.
Web: http://www.climatedisobedience.org/
Keys: climate change; direct action
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Name: Climate Mobilization, The
Text: Mission is to protect civilization and the natural world from
catastrophic climate disruption. We are dedicated to living in climate
truth, and believe that working to solve the climate crisis is
everyone's responsibility.
Dozens of leading environmental analysts have determined that the only
way to save civilization from climate change is with a wartime-style
mobilization, akin to the American home-front effort during World War
II. In that sense, The Climate Mobilization is a single-issue
campaign. We demand a WWII-scale mobilization to restore a safe
climate.
Web: http://www.theclimatemobilization.org/
Keys: climate change
[Contact data last verified 27 Nov 2015]
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Name: Clinic by the Bay
Address: 4877 Mission Street (between France and Russia Avenues)
San Francisco CA 94112
Voice: (415) 405-0222 (patient line)
(415) 405-0207 (business line)
Fax: (415) 405-0223
Text: A volunteer-powered nonprofit organization that provides free
healthcare to those living or working in the San Francisco and San
Mateo counties.
Email: info@clinicbythebay.org
Web: http://www.clinicbythebay.org
Keys: healthcare access; low-income; services
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Name: Close to Home: Exploring Nature in the East Bay (CTH)
Address: 3758 Grand Avenue #38
Oakland CA 94610
Voice: (510) 655-6658
Text: Offers a year-long program of 10 Saturday field trips to some of the
East Bay's most interesting and beautiful places, led by expert
naturalists. From these experiences, we hope to deepen our familiarity
and sense of kinship with the natural world of the East Bay.
Monthly outings are led by naturalists who know and love the East Bay
parks we visit. Yearlong field trip participants form a learning
community, interacting with naturalists who help us attune our senses
to what is revealed in a variety of habitats.
Email: spring5@mindspring.com
Web: http://www.close-to-home.org/
Keys: conservation; endangered species / habitat; hiking; open space;
outdoor activity
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Name: Coalition Against Unsolicited Commercial Email (CAUCE)
Text: An all-volunteer Internet end-user advocacy organization. CAUCE has
moved beyond its original mission of advocating for anti-spam laws, to
a broader stance of defending the interests of all users in the areas
of privacy and abuse in all its forms on the Internet.
CAUCE is led by a Board of Directors with a cumulative century of
experience in the field of Internet advocacy who are active in
consulting with governments, law enforcement agencies, and Industry
associations. See some of the papers and talks they have given.
Web: http://www.cauce.org/
Keys: advertising; coalitions; consumer protection; Internet; legislation;
lobbying; privacy
[Contact data last verified 24 Jul 2016]
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Name: Coalition on Homelessness, San Francisco
Address: 468 Turk Street (between Hyde and Larkin)
San Francisco CA 94102
Voice: (415) 346-3740
Text: Comprised of homeless people and allies who have been organizing
together since 1987 to expand access to housing in one of the richest
cities in the country, to protect the rights of the poorest people in
our society, and to create real solutions to contemporary
homelessness.
Web: http://www.cohsf.org
Keys: coalitions; homelessness; low-income; newspapers; policy; shelters
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Name: Coalition on the Environment and Jewish Life (COEJL)
Text: Deepens and broadens the Jewish community’s commitment to stewardship
and protection of the Earth through outreach, activism and Jewish
learning. Through a network of Jewish leaders, institutions and
individuals, COEJL is mobilizing the Jewish community to conserve
energy, increase sustainability, and advocate for policies that
increase energy efficiency and security while building core Jewish
environmental knowledge and serving as a Jewish voice in the broader
interfaith community. COEJL has been an initiative at the Jewish
Council for Public Affairs since 1993 and serves as the Jewish partner
in the National Religious Partnership on the Environment.
Web: http://www.coejl.org
Keys: coalitions; ecology; Jewish Americans
[Contact data last verified 14 Oct 2017]
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Name: Coalition to Defend Affirmative Action, Integration, and Immigrant
Rights and Fight for Equality By Any Means Necessary (BAMN)
Text: A mass, democratic, integrated, national organization dedicated to
building a new mass civil rights movement to defend affirmative
action, integration, and the other gains of the civil rights movement
of the 1960s and to advance the struggle for equality in American
society by any means necessary.
Become a leader of the new, independent, integrated, youth-led, civil
rights/ immigrant rights movement!
Web: http://www.bamn.com/
Keys: affirmative action; civil rights; coalitions; immigrants; students;
youth
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Name: CODEPINK Women for Peace
Text: A women-led grassroots organization working to end U.S. wars and
militarism, support peace and human rights initiatives, and redirect
our tax dollars into healthcare, education, green jobs and other
life-affirming programs.
Founded in fall 2002 as a grassroots effort to prevent the US war on
Iraq, we continue to organize for justice for Iraqis and to hold war
criminals accountable. We actively oppose the continuing U.S. war in
Afghanistan, torture, the detention center at Guantanamo, weaponized
and spy drones, the prosecution of whistleblowers, U.S. support for
the Israeli occupation of Palestine and repressive regimes.
Web: http://www.codepinkalert.org/
Keys: direct action; drone warfare; humor; international law; Iraq;
nonviolence; peace; policy; women
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Name: Codornices Creek Watershed Council (CCWC)
Text: A local, volunteer organization made up of stakeholders who live and
work in the watershed.
The purpose of the Council is to protect and restore watershed
processes and function, and to promote awareness and stewardship
through collaborative partnerships with agencies, businesses,
organizations, and the community.
Web: http://www.codornicescreekwatershed.org
Keys: creek restoration; watersheds
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Name: Coleman Advocates for Children and Youth
Address: 459 Vienna Street
San Francisco CA 94112
Voice: (415) 239-0161
Fax: (415) 239-0584
Text: A member-led, multi-racial community organization working to create a
city of hope, opportunity, and justice for all children and all
families in San Francisco.
Over the last 30 years, Coleman has become the leading voice for low
to moderate income youth and families in San Francisco.
Through grassroots leadership development, youth and parent
organizing, budget and policy advocacy, civic engagement and strategic
alliance-building, Coleman has transformed public institutions,
improved the lives of tens of thousands of residents, and become a
national model for community-driven change.
Email: info@colemanadvocates.org
Web: http://www.colemanadvocates.org/
Keys: children; juvenile justice; municipal government; newsletters;
watchdog groups; welfare; youth
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Name: ColorLines Magazine
Address: 900 Alice Street, Suite 400
Oakland CA 94607
Voice: (510) 653-3415
Fax: (510) 653-3427
Text: A daily news site where race matters, featuring award-winning
investigative reporting and news analysis. Colorlines is published by
Race Forward, a national organization that advances racial justice
through research, media and practice.
Colorlines is produced by a multiracial team of writers who cover
stories from the perspective of community, rather than through the
lens of power brokers.
Email: community@colorlines.com
Web: http://www.colorlines.com
Keys: analysis; immigrants; multiculturalism; news on-line; racism
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Name: Colwell, Guy
Text: A Berkeley based visual artist and activist making accessible to
progressive organizations a large inventory of socially conscious
illustrations on themes of peace, justice, and the environment to
enhance activist messages, usually at no cost.
Email: info@atelier9.com
Web: http://www.atelier9.com
Keys: art; ecology; justice; peace
[Contact data last verified 14 Apr 2017]
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Name: Commercial Alert
Text: Mission is to keep the commercial culture within its proper sphere,
and to prevent it from exploiting children and subverting the higher
values of family, community, environmental integrity and democracy.
Commercial Alert became a project of Public Citizen in 2011.
Web: http://www.commercialalert.org
Keys: advertising; children; consumer lifestyle; family; media criticism
[Contact data last verified 07 Jan 2017]
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Name: Committee for Green Foothills
Address: Peninsula Conservation Center
3921 East Bayshore Road
Palo Alto CA 94303
Voice: (650) 968-7243
Text: Mission is to protect the open spaces, farmlands, and natural
resources of San Mateo and Santa Clara counties through advocacy,
education, and grassroots action.
Email: info@GreenFoothills.org
Web: http://www.greenfoothills.org
Keys: conservation; endangered species / habitat; land use; San Mateo
County; Santa Clara County; wetlands; wildlife
[Contact data last verified 23 Jan 2017]
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Name: Committee for Human Rights in the Philippines, San Francisco (SF-CHRP)
Text: Shares the vision of human rights advanced by the National Democratic
movement of the Philippines. SF-CHRP educates, organizes, and
mobilizes people and communities in the Bay Area to take progressive
action in upholding and supporting human rights in the Philippines and
throughout the world.
Web: http://sfchrp.weebly.com
Keys: human rights; Philippines / Filipinos
[Contact data last verified 22 Jan 2018]
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Name: Committee In Solidarity with the People of El Salvador, Bay Area
(CISPES)
Text: A grassroots solidarity organization that has been supporting the
Salvadoran people’s struggle for social and economic justice since
1980. We organize strategic campaigns against US government and
corporate intervention in El Salvador and accompany the Salvadoran
popular movement in its work to realize an inspiring vision of
participatory democracy and economic justice. Our work is coordinated
through the CISPES National Office in Washington, DC, and carried out
by local CISPES chapters and supporters across the country.
Web: http://www.cispes.org
Keys: corporate-controlled globalization; El Salvador; human rights;
immigrants; neoliberalism; petitions; solidarity
[Contact data last verified 22 Apr 2018]
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Name: Committee of 100 for Tibet (C100)
Text: A unique organization in its composition, strategy and uncompromising
support of the Tibetan people in their peaceful struggle. In addition
to pursuing its own projects, the C100 actively endorses and
contributes to the work of other key organizations supporting Tibet
and the Tibetan people.
The C100 is dedicated to educating people throughout the world on the
tragic situation in Tibet today. Tibetans continue to be deprived of
their basic human rights and freedoms, are marginalized and
impoverished by unjust and discriminatory policies, and their unique
culture and Buddhist religion - an ancient heritage of inestimable
value to all humanity - is in peril.
Web: http://www.c100tibet.org/
Keys: collectives; cultural survival; employment; human rights; Internet;
nonviolence; refugees; self-determination; Tibet
[Contact data last verified 07 Jan 2017]
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Name: Committee to Minimize Toxic Waste
Address: POBox 9646
Berkeley CA 94709
Text: Mission is to eliminate toxic contaminants of the soil, groundwater,
plants, and atmosphere through remediation and by drastically reducing
and eventually eliminating the generation and storage of hazardous,
radioactive and radioactive mixed wastes.
Web: http://cmtwberkeley.org/
Keys: radioactivity; toxics; waste
[Contact data last verified 24 Jul 2015]
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Name: Committees of Correspondence for Democracy and Socialism (CCDS)
Address: 522 Valencia Street
San Francisco CA 94110
Voice: (415) 863-6637
Text: A nationwide organization with deep roots in many social movements. We
are active in labor and community groups, in peace and justice
coalitions, among students and youth, in the women’s and LGBT
movements, and in environmental, immigrant rights and electoral
campaigns.
Email: national@cc-ds.org
Web: http://www.cc-ds.org/
Keys: coalitions; democracy; ecology; elections; immigrants; justice; labor;
networking; peace; socialism; students; youth
[Contact data last verified 23 Jul 2017]
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Name: Common Cause
Text: The original citizens’ lobby, founded in 1970 by John Gardner, and
still battling for open, honest and accountable government in
Washington, D.C. and in all 50 states.
We have 400,000 members and supporters, offices in 35 states and
activists everywhere. Please explore our site, learn about our work
and join our community. This is our democracy, it’s up to all of us to
make it work.
Web: http://www.commoncause.org
Keys: corporations; distribution of wealth; lobbying; national government;
taxes; welfare
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Name: Common Dreams News Center
Text: A non-profit independent newscenter created in 1997 as a new media
model. By relying on our readers and tens of thousands of small
donations to keep us moving forward -- with no advertising, corporate
underwriting or government funding -- Common Dreams maintains an
editorial independence our readers can count on.
We are optimists. We believe real change is possible. But only if
enough well-informed, well intentioned -- and just plain fed up and
fired-up -- people demand it. We believe that together we can attain
our common dreams.
Web: http://www.commondreams.org/
Keys: editorial comment; news on-line
[Contact data last verified 24 Jul 2016]
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Name: Commons San Francisco, The
Address: 189 Ellsworth Street
San Francisco CA 94110
Voice: (415) 948-4265
Text: We lead four-session seminars in The Principles of Economics. In eight
hours of class time, participants get an overview of how the economy
works. They understand why the economy's topsy-turvy when it is, and
why there's so much acrimony and confusion regarding taxes.
In other words, participants are equipped to powerfully interpret
social and environmental questions of the day. What's more, they
perceive systemic solutions to environmental and social challenges.
We are commited to ending involuntary poverty, worldwide. Public
policy featuring the commons can achieve that goal.
Email: info@thecommonssf.org
Web: http://www.thecommonssf.org
Keys: economics; educators; history; writing
[Contact data last verified 14 Oct 2017]
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Name: Commonweal
Address: POBox 316
Bolinas CA 94924
Voice: (415) 868-0970
Fax: (415) 868-2230
Text: Works in three core fields—health and healing, art and education, and
environment and justice. Within those fields, Commonweal incubates and
supports a dozen different programs including programs in cancer,
health professional education, environmental health, adult learning,
yoga, healing nutrition, permaculture gardening, and juvenile justice.
Email: commonweal@commonweal.org
Web: http://www.commonweal.org
Keys: art; ecology; education; health; juvenile justice; nutrition;
permaculture; yoga
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Name: Commonwealth Fund, The
Text: Mission is to promote a high-performing health care system that
achieves better access, improved quality, and greater efficiency,
particularly for society's most vulnerable, including low-income
people, the uninsured, minority Americans, young children, and elderly
adults.
The Fund carries out this mandate by supporting independent research
on health care issues and making grants to improve health care
practice and policy. An international program in health policy is
designed to stimulate innovative policies and practices in the United
States and other industrialized countries.
Web: http://www.cmwf.org/
Keys: grants / financial aid; healthcare access; low-income; policy;
research; seniors
[Contact data last verified 14 Oct 2017]
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Name: Communities for a Better Environment (CBE)
Address: 1904 Franklin Street, Suite 600
Oakland CA 94612
Voice: (510) 302-0430
Fax: (510) 302-0437
Text: One of the preeminent environmental justice organizations in the
nation. The mission of CBE is to build people’s power in California’s
communities of color and low income communities to achieve
environmental health and justice by preventing and reducing pollution
and building green, healthy and sustainable communities and
environments.
CBE provides residents in blighted and heavily polluted urban
communities in California with organizing skills, leadership training
and legal, scientific and technical assistance, so that they can
successfully confront threats to their health and well-being.
Web: http://www.cbecal.org/
Keys: corporations; environmental justice; litigation; public health;
science; toxics; urban life
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Name: Communities United in Defense of Olmstead (CUIDO)
Address: 1927 Fairview Street
Berkeley CA 94703
Voice: (510) 654-1366
Text: A Bay Area grassroots disability rights activist organization
committed to defending the human and civil rights of people with
disabilities.
We take our name from the 1999 Olmstead Supreme Court ruling, which
declared that people with disabilities have the right to live in the
community, and that placing us in nursing homes or other institutions
against our will when we are capable of living in the community
amounts to segregation based on disability.
We engage in nonviolent direct action and civil disobedience, focusing
(so far) primarily on the California budget cuts to programs serving
people with disabilities, seniors, and poor people.
Email: cuidoaction@gmail.com
Web: http://cuido.org
Keys: civil rights; disabilities; judiciation
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Name: Community Alliance with Family Farmers, Bay Area Office (CAFF)
Address: 405 14th Street, Suite 209
Oakland CA 94612
Voice: (510) 832-4625
Fax: (510) 832-1265
Text: A California-based nonprofit that advocates for family farmers and
sustainable agriculture. We run extensive, on-the-ground programs in
many regions throughout California, enabling community members and
businesses to find and choose local food, and helping farmers increase
their income and sustainability. CAFF has been recognized nationally
and internationally for its pioneering programs, and played key roles
in enacting the nation’s toughest laws regulating pesticide use;
promoting the development of organic farming; bringing fresh, local
produce into school cafeterias; and establishing programs to
distribute locally grown produce to community grocery stores,
hospitals, restaurants and farmers markets.
Web: http://www.caff.org/
https://www.facebook.com/BA.CAFF
Keys: agriculture; Community Supported Agriculture; decentralization; local
economy; local food; noncorporate economy; policy; rural life;
sustainability
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Name: Community Boards
Address: 601 Van Ness Avenue, Suite 2040
San Francisco CA 94102
Voice: (415) 920-3820
Text: Operates the oldest, longest-running public conflict resolution center
in the United States. We maintain a corps of 350+ highly skilled
volunteer Community Mediators.
Our neighborhood mediation services are offered citywide in Spanish,
Mandarin, Cantonese, and English at little or no-cost. Our
professional mediation services are a perfect fit for independent
contractors, small businesses, tech startups, property managers,
homeowner associations, and nonprofit organizations.
Web: http://www.communityboards.org
Keys: conflict resolution; facilitation; housing; mediation; neighborhoods;
prevention; services
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Name: Community Food Security Coalition (CFSC)
Text: A North American coalition of diverse people and organizations working
from the local to international levels to build community food
security. We have a diverse membership with almost 300 organizations
from social and economic justice, anti-hunger, environmental,
community development, sustainable agriculture, community gardening
and other fields. We are dedicated to building strong, sustainable,
local and regional food systems that ensure access to affordable,
nutritious, and culturally appropriate food to all people at all
times. We seek to develop self-reliance among all communities in
obtaining their food and to create a system of growing, manufacturing,
processing, making available, and selling food that is regionally
based and grounded in the principles of justice, democracy, and
sustainability.
Web: http://foodsecurity.org
Keys: coalitions; economic justice; food security; gardening; organic
agriculture; self-reliance; sustainability
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Name: Community Housing Partnership (CHP)
Address: 20 Jones Street, Suite 200
San Francisco CA 94102
Voice: (415) 852-5300
Text: Mission is to help homeless people secure housing and become
self-sufficient. An outcomes-focused nonprofit that fulfills its
mission by developing and managing high quality supportive housing and
providing services to homeless individuals, seniors and families to
help them rebuild their lives and break the cycle of homelessness.
Email: info@chp-sf.org
Web: http://www.chp-sf.org
Keys: employment; homelessness; housing; self-determination; services
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Name: Community Legal Services in East Palo Alto (CLSEPA)
Address: 1861 Bay Road
East Palo Alto CA 94303
Voice: (650) 326-6440
Text: We provide legal assistance to low-income individuals and families in
East Palo Alto and the surrounding community. Our practice areas
include immigration, housing, anti-predatory lending and home mortgage
foreclosure prevention, and consumer protection (Volunteer Attorney
Program).
Services range from advice and counseling, brief services, and full
representation. CLSEPA does not provide legal assistance with criminal
matters. Call your local Public Defender's office or bar association.
Web: http://www.clsepa.org
Keys: housing; immigrants; juvenile justice; lawyers; legal services;
low-income; San Mateo County; students; volunteer matching
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Name: Community Resources for Independent Living (CRIL)
Address: 439 'A' Street
Hayward CA 94541
Voice: (510) 881-5743
(510) 881-0218 (TTY)
Fax: (510) 881-1593
Text: A peer-based disability resource organization that advocates and
provides resources for people with disabilities to improve lives and
make communities fully accessible. CRIL offers independent living
services at no charge to persons with disabilities living in southern
and eastern Alameda County. In order to become a CRIL consumer, an
individual must have a disability or functional limitation and be able
to benefit from independent living services. Everyone is welcome
regardless of race, ethnicity, the nature of the disability or
limitation, age, socioeconomic status, sexual orientation, gender
identity and expression, immigration status, health condition or any
other characteristics.
Web: http://www.cril-online.org/
Keys: Alameda County (below Oakland); disabilities; services
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Name: Community Solution, The
Text: We are a community of educators, authors, filmmakers, and activists
exploring Community Solutions to Peak Energy and Climate Change.
Web: http://www.communitysolution.org/
Keys: books; climate change; community-building; educators; energy; film /
video; local economy; peak oil; self-reliance; sustainability
[Contact data last verified 14 Apr 2017]
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Name: Community Technology Alliance (CTA)
Address: 1671 The Alameda, Suite 300
San Jose CA 95126
Voice: (408) 437-8800
Fax: (408) 437-9169
Text: Provides technology solutions and support to nonprofits and public
agencies who are working with us to end poverty and homelessness.
Through our tech-savvy solutions, we’re helping hundreds of programs
provide more efficient and effective services to tens-of-thousands of
men, women and children each year. In 2013 alone, over 75,000 people
received lifesaving services from Community Technology Alliance and
our partners. Our partners think of us as their technological
backbone. We are based in Silicon Valley, but we provide database and
telecommunications solutions, as well as training, technical
assistance and facilitation services to communities throughout the
country.
Email: info@ctagroup.org
Web: http://www.ctagroup.org
Keys: homelessness; poverty; Santa Clara County; technical assistance
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Name: Community United Against Violence (CUAV)
Address: 427 South Van Ness Avenue
San Francisco CA 94103
Voice: (415) 777-5500
Fax: (415) 777-5565
Text: Works to build the power of LGBTQ (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender
and queer) communities to transform violence and oppression. We
support the healing and leadership of those impacted by abuse and
mobilize our broader communities to replace cycles of trauma with
cycles of safety and liberation. As part of the larger social justice
movement, CUAV works to create truly safe communities where everyone
can thrive.
Email: info@cuav.org
Web: http://www.cuav.org
Keys: domestic violence; economic justice; police accountability;
prevention; sexual minorities; violence
[Contact data last verified 23 Jul 2017]
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Name: Community Works (CW)
Address: 110 Broadway
Oakland CA 94607
Voice: (510) 268-8116
Fax: (510) 268-8132
Text: We empower people impacted by incarceration, and we use our work on
the front lines to advocate for a more humane justice system.
We call it translational justice.
Email: info@communityworkswest.org
Web: http://www.communityworkswest.org
Keys: art; community-building; crime; incarceration; juvenile justice;
public education
[Contact data last verified 19 Aug 2017]
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Name: Community Youth Center (CYC)
Address: 1038 Post Street
San Francisco CA 94109
Voice: (415) 775-2636
Fax: (415) 775-1345
Text: Since 1970, CYC has set the standard for awareness and activism in the
Asian community. Originally founded to address the problems of
juvenile delinquency and gang violence in Chinatown, CYC has grown to
encompass behavioral health, education, intervention, leadership
development, street outreach and workforce development in all our
programs. We offer services directed at responding to the complex set
of issues the youth in our community face including acculturation,
difficulties in school, economic hardship, substance abuse, and gang
involvement. Our educational enrichment, leadership building, and
job-readiness programs have earned CYC a unique reputation as a key
agency for Asian youth services in San Francisco.
Email: cyc@cycsf.org
Web: http://www.cycsf.org
Keys: Asian Americans; at-risk youth; counseling; drugs; employment; family;
immigrants; juvenile justice; prevention
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Name: Community-Wealth.org
Text: Few Americans are aware of the steady build-up of innovative community
wealth building strategies throughout the United States.
Community-Wealth.org brings together, for the first time, information
about the broad range of community wealth building activity.
We believe that practitioners, policy makers, academics and the media
need solid information and tools that can help them understand and
support the expansion of community wealth-building institutions.
Community-Wealth.org is a project of The Democracy Collaborative. Our
commitment is to advance a new understanding of democracy for the 21st
century.
Web: http://community-wealth.org
Keys: community-building; local economy
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Name: CommunityGrows
Address: 762 Fulton Sreet
San Francisco CA 94102
Voice: (415) 731-1837
Text: Our mission is to cultivate healthy youth through growing gardens in
low-income, diverse communities.
In the past decade, CommunityGrows has renovated and/or maintained
eight parks and gardens in the Western Addition, providing welcoming
oases for residents and outdoor classrooms for youth.
Today, CommunityGrows serves over 1,330 youth each year through three
interconnected programs: Environmental Education; Seed to Mouth
cooking classes; and the BEETS paid teen internship.
Web: http://www.communitygrows.org
Keys: classes / courses; employment; gardening; low-income; nutrition; youth
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Name: Compass Family Services
Address: 49 Powell Street, 3rd Floor
San Francisco CA 94102
Voice: (415) 644-0504
Text: Helps homeless families and families at imminent risk for homelessness
to achieve housing stability, family well-being, and
self-sufficiency.
Our seven programs provide services to more than 5,000 parents and
children each year, 50% of whom are under age 18. Of our 80+ staff
members, 57% are people of color, 73% are women, and more than 20%
have been homeless and bring firsthand knowledge to their work with
clients.
Web: http://www.compass-sf.org
Keys: childcare; counseling; employment; family; homelessness; housing;
poverty; services
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Name: Compassion & Choices
Text: The leading nonprofit organization committed to helping everyone have
the best death possible. We offer free consultation, planning
resources, referrals and guidance, and across the nation we work to
protect and expand options at the end of life.
For over thirty years we have reduced people’s suffering and given
them some control in their final days – even when injury or illness
takes their voice. We are experts in what it takes to die well.
Web: http://www.compassionandchoices.org/
Keys: healthcare access; law; physician-assisted suicide; self-determination
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Name: Compassion Over Killing (COK)
Text: A national nonprofit 501(c)(3) animal advocacy organization
headquartered in Washington, DC, with an additional office in Los
Angeles, CA. Working to end animal abuse since 1995, COK focuses on
cruelty to animals in agriculture and promotes vegetarian eating as a
way to build a kinder world for all of us, both human and nonhuman.
Since 1995, COK has served as an unwavering force bringing about
positive changes for animals and thanks to our many generous
supporters, we’ve come a long way in our short history: starting as an
all-volunteer high school club and evolving into a national voice for
animals.
Despite our small staff and limited budget, COK’s innovative,
cost-effective campaigns are having a tremendous impact.
Web: http://www.cok.net/
Keys: animal liberation; veganism / vegetarianism
[Contact data last verified 22 Jan 2018]
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Name: CompassPoint Nonprofit Services
Address: 500 12th Street, Suite 320
Oakland CA 94607
Voice: (510) 318-3755
Fax: (415) 541-7708
Text: We are a national nonprofit leadership and strategy practice based in
Oakland, CA. For over 40 years, we have strengthened nonprofit
leadership and supported organizations and movement networks to adapt
and operate strategically. We also collaborate with fellow capacity
builders and regularly share research and tools with the field at
large.
Email: info@compasspoint.org
Web: http://www.compasspoint.org
Keys: classes / courses; consultants; fundraising; researchers; technical
assistance; technology
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Name: Computer & Technology Resource Center (ACCRC)
Address: 42 Digital Drive, Suite 3
Novato CA 94930
Voice: (415) 883-1428
Text: We are a non?profit, environmental charity committed to household
electronics and computer recycling. We give away refurbished computers
to those in need.
Since 1994, we have given away thousands of computers to schools,
non?profit organizations and economically and/or physically
disadvantaged individuals. Our electronics and computer recycling
efforts support our training program, where volunteers learn to
reclaim, refurbish, and restore computers for home, school, and office
applications. We are a 501(c)(3) non-profit charity and a certified
e-waste collector.
A second location is at 620 Page Street in Berkeley.
Email: info@ewastecollective.org
Web: http://www.accrc.org/
Keys: computers; recycling; reuse
[Contact data last verified 22 Apr 2018]
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Name: Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility (CPSR)
Text: A global organization promoting the responsible use of computer
technology. Founded in 1981, CPSR educates policymakers and the public
on a wide range of issues. CPSR has incubated numerous projects such
as Privaterra, the Public Sphere Project, EPIC (the Electronic Privacy
Information Center), the 21st Century Project, the Civil Society
Project, and the CFP (Computers, Freedom & Privacy) Conference.
Originally founded by U.S. computer scientists, CPSR now has members
in 26 countries on six continents.
Web: http://www.cpsr.org
Keys: computers; Internet; privacy; technology
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Name: Congregation Sha'ar Zahav
Address: 290 Dolores Street (at 16th Street)
San Francisco CA 94103
Voice: (415) 861-6932
Text: A historically LGBTQ synagogue. We are a progressive, diverse and
participatory community that welcomes everyone who wants to create a
Judaism that reflects our lives. Please join us for worship, learning
and celebration at our home at the corner of Dolores Street and 16th
Street in San Francisco.
Web: http://www.shaarzahav.org/
Keys: Jewish Americans; religion; sexual minorities
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Name: Congress for the New Urbanism (CNU)
Text: An international nonprofit organization working to build vibrant
communities where people have diverse choices for how they live, work,
and get around. We believe that well-designed cities and neighborhoods
are crucial for our health, economy, and environment. We build places
people love.
Through 24 years of advocacy, CNU has changed the national
conversation from a debate over sprawl to a discussion on how to
reinvest in our cities and towns. As Americans both young and old are
demanding walkable lifestyles, the market for unique and green places
is growing in every region. Through our projects, innovative tools,
events, membership and programs, we empower people to deliver those
places.
Web: https://www.cnu.org
Keys: development; neighborhoods; transportation; urban life; urban sprawl;
walking
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Name: congress.gov
Text: The official website for U.S. federal legislative information. The
site provides access to accurate, timely, and complete legislative
information for Members of Congress, legislative agencies, and the
public. It is presented by the Library of Congress (LOC) using data
from the Office of the Clerk of the U.S. House of Representatives, the
Office of the Secretary of the Senate, the Government Publishing
Office, Congressional Budget Office, and the LOC's Congressional
Research Service.
Web: https://www.congress.gov/
Keys: legislation; national government; research materials
[Contact data last verified 10 Dec 2016]
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Name: Conrad, Chris
Text: Chris Conrad is a well known author, consultant, public speaker,
cannabis expert witness, museum curator and internationally respected
authority on cannabis, industrial hemp, medical marijuana,
cultivation, garden yields, processing, dosages, commercial intent,
personal use and cannabis culture. He teaches at Oaksterdam University
and the International Pharmacological Academy and has given numerous
presentations for continuing legal education (CLE) and continuing
medical education (CME) programs.
Web: http://www.chrisconrad.com
Keys: books; cannabis; consultants; drugs; hemp; individuals; medical
marijuana; policy; speakers
[Contact data last verified 28 Oct 2017]
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Name: Conservation Corps North Bay
Address: 27 Larkspur Street
San Rafael CA 94901
Voice: (415) 454-4554
Fax: (415) 454-4595
Text: Mission is to develop youth and conserve natural resources for a
strong, sustainable community. We achieve our mission by:
Providing a diverse group of youth and young adults with
opportunities to transform their lives through paid work, education,
employability, civic engagement, and leadership.
Caring for our environment by conserving and restoring natural
resources, and by improving recreational and public areas.
Creating the environmental leaders of the future by teaching
environmental ethics and behaviors to children, teens and adults.
Making communities safer by reducing hazards and by responding to
public emergencies and disasters.
Web: http://www.conservationcorpsnorthbay.org
Keys: conservation; endangered species / habitat; Marin County; outdoor
activity; volunteer matching; wildlife
[Contact data last verified 28 Oct 2017]
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Name: Consider The Homeless
Address: POBox 2771
Berkeley CA 94702
Voice: (510) 560-4CTH (4286)
Text: We are a grassroots community based group of like-minded neighbors and
friends who want to help those less fortunate than ourselves. Unlike
most other services for the homeless we do not expect them to come to
us. We deliver dinner and supplies to whomever needs them by driving
slowly around downtown and calling out to those huddled in doorways,
on sidewalks and in parks – “Sir/Ma’am, would you like some hot
homemade soup?”
We never offer, nor give, cash or cigarettes – we offer a smile and a
cup of hot nutritious soup, and thanks to Acme Bakery, some bread and
we deliver directly to the homeless hand-to-hand. We tell them, “Stay
here, we can bring it to you.”
Email: info@ConsiderTheHomeless.org
Web: http://www.considerthehomeless.org
Keys: food; homelessness; parks; services
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Name: Consortium For Independent Journalism
Text: Tackles tough, important stories that the mainstream media either
ignored or failed to cover accurately. Editor / publisher Robert
Parry broke many of the stories now known as the Iran-contra scandal,
including the first stories on contra cocaine smuggling.
Web: http://www.consortiumnews.com/
Keys: drugs; investigative journalism; media criticism; news on-line;
Nicaragua
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Name: Consume This Movie
Text: Are Americans too materialistic? Are we willfully trashing the
planetary ecology in order to serve the desires and drives of the ego?
And what, or who could be driving this powerful force of seduction?
Consume This Movie takes a critical look at social injustice, peak
oil, resource depletion and our deep need to feel connected to each
other through what we choose to consume. This 80 minute documentary
also examines the frenzied pace of fast-lane materialism that is
beggining to burn us out. We Americans are just now beginning to yearn
for a simpler life, but is it too late? Have we set in motion a
runaway train that threatens to undermine the ecological, social and
spiritual cornerstones that make the pursuit of happiness possible in
the first place? Walk, don't drive to see this powerful documentary
film, while supplies last!
Web: http://consumethismovie.com
Keys: conservation; consumer lifestyle; film / video; peak oil
[Contact data last verified 30 Apr 2016]
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Name: Consumer Action (CA)
Address: 221 Main Street, Suite 480
San Francisco CA 94105
Voice: (415) 777-9635 (Consumer Complaint Hotline)
(415) 777-9648 (Business)
Text: Through multilingual financial education materials, community
outreach, and grassroots "make your voice heard" advocacy, Consumer
Action empowers underrepresented consumers nationwide to assert their
rights in the marketplace and financially prosper.
Web: http://www.consumer-action.org
Keys: banks; consumer protection; corporations; lead poisoning; telephone
service
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Name: Consumer Federation of America (CFA)
Text: An association of non-profit consumer organizations that was
established in 1968 to advance the consumer interest through research,
advocacy, and education. Today, nearly 300 of these groups participate
in the federation and govern it through their representatives on the
organization’s Board of Directors.
Web: http://www.consumerfed.org/
Keys: coalitions; consumer protection; research
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Name: Consumers for Dental Choice (CDC)
Text: The goal of our Campaign for Mercury-Free Dentistry is to phase out
the use of amalgam, a 50% mercury product -- worldwide. The recently
concluded draft mercury treaty requires each signing nation to phase
down its use of amalgam, and it provides a road map how. We aim to:
Educate consumers about the use of mercury in dentistry so they
can make informed decisions
Stop dental mercury pollution
Protect consumers – especially vulnerable populations such as
children and the unborn – from exposure to dental mercury
Empower dental workers – dental assistants and hygienists – to
protect themselves from mercury in the workplace
Promote access to mercury-free alternatives to amalgam
Web: http://www.toxicteeth.org/
Keys: consumer protection; health; policy; toxics
[Contact data last verified 23 Jul 2017]
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Name: Consumers International
Text: Consumers International (CI) is the world federation of consumer
groups that, working together with its members, serves as the only
independent and authoritative global voice for consumers. There are
eight basic consumer rights which define and determine our principles.
You can also read about our work to protect and empower consumers
everywhere.
Founded in 1960, we are fighting for a fair, safe and sustainable
future for all consumers in a global marketplace increasingly
dominated by international corporations.
Web: http://www.consumersinternational.org/
Keys: coalitions; consumer protection; policy
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Name: Contra Costa Child Care Council
Address: 1035 Detroit Avenue, Suite 200
Concord CA 94518
Voice: (925) 676-KIDS (5437)
Fax: (925) 825-2732
Text: In the business of ensuring that Contra Costa’s children are nurtured,
healthy and achieve their full potential. As the only child care
resource and referral agency serving all of Contra Costa, the Council
is at the center of the child care delivery system. Through a wide
range of free and low cost services and programs, it partners with
parents, child care providers, businesses, and the community to
promote quality care and early education so that children are ready
for school and parents can work.
Web: http://www.cocokids.org/
Keys: childcare; Contra Costa County; family; health; low-income; nutrition;
policy; services
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Name: Cooperative Community Energy (CCEnergy)
Address: 534 Fourth Street, Suite C
San Rafael CA 94901-3360
Voice: (877) 228-8700
(415) 457-0215
Fax: (415) 457-0216
Text: Founded in 2001 to make the purchase and installation of renewable
energy systems easy and affordable. As a co-op, our customers are part
owners of the business, keeping our focus on the benefits we deliver
to our members. This philosophy guides everything we do, from initial
site evaluations to the long-run efficiency and productivity of each
renewable energy system.
Email: solar@ccenergy.com
Web: http://www.ccenergy.com
Keys: consumer protection; cooperatives; products; renewable energy; solar
energy
[Contact data last verified 18 Apr 2015]
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Name: Copwatch, Berkeley
Address: 2022 Blake Street (near Shattuck)
Berkeley CA 94704-2604
Voice: (510) 548-0425
Text: Berkeley Copwatch is the original Copwatch group. We began in 1990 on
Telegraph Ave. as an all-volunteer organization dedicated to
monitoring police actions and non-violently asserting our rights.
Since that time, many Copwatch-type organizations have sprung up
across the nation, in various forms. Berkeley Copwatch is based on the
idea that WATCHING the police is a crucial first step in the process
of organizing. We do not attempt to interfere in police activity or to
resist police misconduct physically. It is our hope that, one day,
mass outrage at police and government violence will increase to a
point where fundamental change in the nature of policing becomes
inevitable.
Email: berkeleycopwatch@yahoo.com
Web: http://www.berkeleycopwatch.org/
Keys: direct action; police accountability; watchdog groups
[Contact data last verified 23 Jul 2017]
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Name: Coral Reef Alliance, The (CORAL)
Address: 1330 Broadway, Suite 1602
Oakland CA 94612
Voice: 1-888-CORAL-REEF
Text: Working with people around the world—from fishermen to government
leaders, divers to scientists, Californians to Fijians—the Coral Reef
Alliance protects our most valuable and threatened ecosystem. We lead
holistic conservation programs that improve coral reef health and
resilience and are replicated across the globe.
Email: info@coral.org
Web: http://www.coral.org
Keys: climate change; coastal environment; community-building; conservation;
coral reefs; endangered species / habitat
[Contact data last verified 28 Oct 2017]
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Name: Corporate Accountability International
Text: We are committed to stopping life-threatening abuses by global
corporations and increasing their accountability to public
institutions and people around the world.
As global corporations have grown richer and more powerful than many
nations, they increasingly operate without limits on their power or
influence. Around the world, global corporations drive government
policies, unchecked by strong global policies to protect public
health, human rights and the environment.
Web: http://www.stopcorporateabuse.org
Keys: boycotts; corporations; food; nuclear energy; tobacco; water
[Contact data last verified 07 Jan 2017]
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Name: Corporate Watch
Text: A not-for-profit co-operative providing critical information on the
social and environmental impacts of corporations and capitalism. Since
1996 our research, journalism, analysis and training have supported
people affected by corporations and those taking action for radical
social change.
We are currently working on climate change and ecology, militarism and
social control, democracy, privatisation and housing. All of our work
is available for free on our website.
Web: https://corporatewatch.org/
Keys: analysis; capitalism; climate change; control; corporations;
democracy; ecology; housing; militarism; privatization; research;
research materials
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Name: Corporation (the film), The
Text: A film that explores the nature and spectacular rise of the dominant
institution of our time. Part film and part movement, The Corporation
is transforming audiences and dazzling critics with its insightful and
compelling analysis. Taking its status as a legal "person" to the
logical conclusion, the film puts the corporation on the
psychiatrist's couch to ask "What kind of person is it?" The
Corporation includes interviews with 40 corporate insiders and critics
- including Noam Chomsky, Naomi Klein, Milton Friedman, Howard Zinn,
Vandana Shiva and Michael Moore - plus true confessions, case studies
and strategies for change.
Web: http://www.thecorporation.com/
Keys: books; corporations; film / video
[Contact data last verified 18 Apr 2015]
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Name: CorpWatch
Address: POBox 29198
San Francisco CA 94129
Voice: (415) 226-6226
Text: Non-profit investigative research and journalism to expose corporate
malfeasance and to advocate for multinational corporate accountability
and transparency. We work to foster global justice, independent media
activism and democratic control over corporations.
We seek to expose multinational corporations that profit from war,
fraud, environmental, human rights and other abuses, and to provide
critical information to foster a more informed public and an effective
democracy.
Web: http://www.corpwatch.org
Keys: analysis; corporate-controlled globalization; corporations;
environmental justice; human rights; news on-line; research; watchdog
groups
[Contact data last verified 19 Oct 2014]
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Name: COTS Committee on the Shelterless
Address: PO Box 2744
Petaluma CA 94953
Voice: (707) 765-6530
Text: We empower homeless families, veterans, and adults to rebuild their
lives and find housing. COTS is nationally recognized for our programs
that consistently achieve housing results at twice the national
average. We are more than a shelter; we provide comprehensive services
that break the cycle of homelessness for good.
Web: http://www.cots-homeless.org/
Keys: homelessness; services; shelters
[Contact data last verified 10 Dec 2016]
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Name: Council for Responsible Genetics (CRG)
Text: Represents the public interest and fosters public debate about the
social, ethical and environmental implications of genetic
technologies.
CRG works through the media and concerned citizens to distribute
accurate information on emerging issues in biotechnology. CRG also
publishes a bimonthly magazine, GeneWatch, the only publication of its
kind in the nation.
Web: http://www.gene-watch.org
Keys: biotechnology; magazines
[Contact data last verified 08 Feb 2015]
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Name: Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR)
Text: Vision is to be a leading advocate for justice and mutual
understanding.
CAIR's mission is to enhance understanding of Islam, encourage
dialogue, protect civil liberties, empower American Muslims, and build
coalitions that promote justice and mutual understanding.
Web: http://www.cair.com
Keys: civil liberties; media criticism; Muslims
[Contact data last verified 19 Oct 2014]
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Name: CounterCorp
Address: 2017 Mission Street, Second Floor (at 16th Street)
San Francisco CA 94110
Text: Seeks to spotlight, curtail, and ultimately prevent the corrosive
effects of corporate impunity around the world by raising public and
media awareness, promoting critical thought and analysis, and
encouraging informed discussion and debate about how corporations
actually operate, and what they really add to — and subtract from —
humanity’s “bottom line”.
Web: http://www.countercorp.org
Keys: corporate-controlled globalization; corporations; festivals; film /
video
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Name: Countercurrents.org
Text: An alternative news site that stands for peace and justice. Our
sympathies are with all those who are engaged in struggles for
economic, political, social, cultural, gender, environmental justice
and more.
Web: http://www.countercurrents.org
Keys: news on-line
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Name: CounterPULSE
Address: 80 Turk Street
San Francisco CA 94102
Voice: (415) 626-2060
Text: Building a movement of risk-taking art that shatters assumptions and
builds community. We provide space and resources for emerging artists
and cultural innovators, serving as an incubator for the creation of
socially relevant, community-based art and culture. CounterPulse acts
as a catalyst for art and action; creating a forum for the open
exchange of art and ideas, sparking transformation in our communities
and our society. We work towards a world that celebrates diversity of
race, class, cultural heritage, artistic expression, ability, gender
identity & sexual orientation. We strive to create an environment that
is physically and economically accessible to everyone.
Email: info@counterpulse.org
Web: http://www.counterpulse.org/
Keys: art; community-building; diversity; music
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Name: CounterPunch
Text: The bi-weekly muckraking newsletter edited by Alexander Cockburn and
Jeffrey St. Clair. Twice a month it brings its readers the stories
that the corporate press never prints. Muckraking with a radical
attitude.
Web: http://www.counterpunch.org/
Keys: investigative journalism; newsletters
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Name: Courage Campaign
Text: Fights for a more progressive California and country. We are an online
community powered by more than 1.3 million members.
Our proven strategy combines digital tools with grassroots community
organizing. Every day, we use email, social media, petitions, offline
events and data-driven outreach to educate public opinion, mobilize
action, and hold our leaders accountable.
We focus on THREE priorities:
Economic Justice
Human Rights
Corporate and Political Accountability
Web: http://www.couragecampaign.org
Keys: corporations; economic justice; human rights; Internet; lobbying;
media; networking; petitions
[Contact data last verified 24 Jul 2016]
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Name: Courage to Resist
Address: 484 Lakepark Avenue # 41
Oakland CA 94610
Voice: (510) 488-3559
Text: A group of concerned community members, veterans and military families
that supports military objectors to illegal war and occupation and the
policies of empire. Our People Power strategy weakens the pillars that
maintain war and occupation in Iraq, Afghanistan and elsewhere by
supporting GI resistance, counter-recruitment and draft resistance,
which cuts off the supply of troops. We are autonomous from and
independent of any political organization, party or group.
Web: http://www.couragetoresist.org
Keys: conscientious objectors; draft / registration; imperialism; Iraq;
military occupation; military recruitment; veterans
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Name: Covenant House California
Address: 200 Harrison Street
Oakland CA 94607
Voice: (510) 379-1010
Fax: (510) 379-1036
Text: A non-profit agency whose mission is to reach out to at-risk homeless
youth living on the streets and offer them hope and opportunities to
turn their lives around. We help abused or neglected youth who have
nowhere else to go. A large number have been thrown out of their homes
while others have aged out or left the foster care system with no
family, no support system, and no one to turn to.
Email: info@covenanthousecalifornia.org
Web: http://www.covenanthousecalifornia.org
Keys: at-risk youth; counseling; homelessness; self-sufficiency; services;
shelters
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Name: Cowspiracy: The Sustainability Secret
Text: A groundbreaking feature-length environmental documentary following
intrepid filmmaker Kip Andersen as he uncovers the most destructive
industry facing the planet today – and investigates why the world’s
leading environmental organizations are too afraid to talk about it.
Animal agriculture is the leading cause of deforestation, water
consumption and pollution, is responsible for more greenhouse gases
than the transportation industry, and is a primary driver of
rainforest destruction, species extinction, habitat loss, topsoil
erosion, ocean “dead zones,” and virtually every other environmental
ill. Yet it goes on, almost entirely unchallenged.
Web: http://www.cowspiracy.com
Keys: agriculture; deforestation; endangered species / habitat; film /
video; health; pollution; rainforests; sustainability; water
[Contact data last verified 22 Apr 2018]
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Name: Creativity Explored
Address: 3245 16th Street (at Guerrero)
San Francisco CA 94103
Voice: (415) 863-2108
Text: Gives artists with developmental disabilities the means to create and
share their work with the community, celebrating the power of art to
change lives.
We are committed to supporting people with developmental disabilities
in their quest to become working artists, and to promoting their work
as an emerging and increasingly important contribution to the
contemporary art world.
Email: info@creativityexplored.org
Web: http://www.creativityexplored.org
Keys: art; creativity; disabilities; mental health
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Name: Crisis Support Services of Alameda County (CSS)
Address: POBox 3120
Oakland CA 94609
Voice: (510) 420-2460 (office)
(800) 309-2131 (crisis line)
Text: Mission is to reach out and offer support to people of all ages and
backgrounds during times of crisis, to work to prevent the suicide of
those who are actively suicidal, and to offer hope and caring during
times of hopelessness.
Offers a broad range of counseling, education and prevention services
in a safe environment. CSS' 24-hour crisis hotline responds to more
than 60,000 calls each year. Services include on-going therapy groups,
school-based counseling, supportive services for seniors, suicide
prevention for youth; and community education.
Web: http://www.crisissupport.org
Keys: counseling; employment; mental health; seniors; suicide prevention;
violence; youth
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Name: Crissy Field Center
Address: Building 201
Fort Mason
San Francisco CA 94123
Voice: (415) 561-3000
Fax: (415) 561-3003
Text: A dynamic hub of youth engagement for the Golden Gate National Parks
and a model program of the National Park Service. Crissy Field Center
programs encourage new generations to become bold leaders for thriving
parks, healthy communities, and a more environmentally just society.
With our focus on engaging people who traditionally have had little—if
any—access to national parks, the Center has developed strong
partnerships with schools and community centers in underserved areas,
providing a majority of its programming for free or at low cost.
Email: tellmemore@parksconservancy.org
Web: http://www.crissyfield.org
Keys: ecology; environmental justice; parks; sustainability; urban life
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Name: Critical Mass (Berkeley)
Text: This fun ride begins at the Ashby Bart Station, where riders meet at
6pm on the 2nd Friday of each month. A local rider frequently brings a
powerful bicycle sound system to the rides.
Web: http://criticalmass.wikia.com/wiki/Berkeley,_California
http://www.bclu.org/berkeleycriticalmass.org/
Keys: cycling
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Name: Critical Mass (San Francisco)
Text: A monthly mass bicycle ride that takes place on the last Friday of
each month in cities around the world. It was started here in San
Francisco in 1992 by cyclists and activists who wanted to increase the
visibility of bicyclists and reclaim public space by making social use
of the streets on a regular basis.
Meets on the last Friday of each month at 5:30 pm at Justin Herman
Plaza, at the foot of Market Street in San Francisco.
Web: http://www.sfcriticalmass.org
Keys: cycling
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Name: Critical Resistance
Address: 1904 Franklin Street, Suite 504
Oakland CA 94612
Voice: (510) 444-0484
Text: Seeks to build an international movement to end the Prison Industrial
Complex by challenging the belief that caging and controlling people
makes us safe. We believe that basic necessities such as food,
shelter, and freedom are what really make our communities secure. As
such, our work is part of global struggles against inequality and
powerlessness. The success of the movement requires that it reflect
communities most affected by the PIC. Because we seek to abolish the
PIC, we cannot support any work that extends its life or scope.
Email: crnational@criticalresistance.org
Web: http://www.criticalresistance.org
Keys: criminal justice; incarceration; judiciation; people of color;
political prisoners; torture; violence
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Name: CropChoice
Text: An alternative news and information source for American farmers and
consumers about genetically modified crops, corporate agribusiness
concentration, farm and trade policy, sustainable agriculture, wind
farming and alternative energy, and rural economic and social issues.
CropChoice has news that big companies may not want farmers to hear.
The CropChoice news service provides balance. It complements other
news sources and helps American producers make the best planting and
management decisions. Consumers are better infomed about the food
they're buying, how it was produced and processed, and its source.
Web: http://www.cropchoice.com
Keys: agriculture; biotechnology; corporations; news on-line
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Name: CropMobster Community Exchange
Text: Mission is to empower communities to transform food waste, surplus and
loss into new value, celebration and resource efficiency. We empower
our clients with the knowledge, training and gear to harness the power
of community to ignite crowdsourcing, sharing and measurable results.
And we’re also, if you haven’t noticed, on a mission to have FUN!
By leveraging social media and instant email alerts, we’re able to
spread the word quickly about local food excess and surplus from any
supplier in the food chain, get healthy food to those in need, help
local businesses recover costs, prevent food waste and connect our
community in new and fun ways.
Web: http://sfbay.cropmobster.com/
Keys: agriculture; food; gardening; local economy; reuse; sharing; trade
[Contact data last verified 22 Jan 2018]
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Name: Crucible, The
Address: 1260 7th Street
Oakland CA 94607
Voice: (510) 444-0919
Text: A 501(c)(3) non-profit arts education organization that fosters a
collaboration of arts, industry, and community. Through training in
the fine and industrial arts, The Crucible promotes creative
expression, reuse of materials, and innovative design, while serving
as an accessible arts venue for the general public in the Bay Area.
Known for one-of-a-kind industrial arts education programs, The
Crucible is also highly regarded for its innovative performances.
Email: info@thecrucible.org
Web: http://www.thecrucible.org/
Keys: art; children; classes / courses; community-building; creativity;
seniors
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Name: Cultural Heritage Imaging (CHI)
Address: 2325 3rd Street, Suite 323
San Francisco CA 94107
Voice: (415) 558-8672
Text: Drives development and adoption of practical digital imaging and
preservation solutions for people passionate about saving humanity's
treasures today, before they are lost.
The technologies and principles that guide our work are leading to new
and easy-to-learn imaging techniques that can be made available and
accessible to people all over the world.
By providing tools, technology, and training, CHI drives the adoption
of new practices by a broad constituency, from major art museums to
remote archaeological sites to fields in the natural sciences.
Email: info@c-h-i.org
Web: http://culturalheritageimaging.org/
Keys: art; cultural survival; history; museums
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Name: Culture and Animals Foundation (CAF)
Text: An all-volunteer-run, non-profit organization whose mission is to
support artists and scholars in advancing our understanding of and
commitment to animals.
By providing annual grants to scholars and artists, the Culture &
Animals Foundation (CAF) aims to appeal to individual intellect,
creativity, and compassion, and build a deeper understanding of
human–animal relationships and a greater respect for animal rights.
Web: http://www.cultureandanimals.org/
Keys: animal liberation; art; dance; grants / financial aid; history; music;
philosophy; poetry; theatre
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Name: Culture Change
Address: POBox 3387
Santa Cruz CA 95063
Voice: (215) 243-3144
Fax: (215) 243-3144 (same as voice)
Text: Mobilizes people to slash petroleum consumption immediately. Our
reasons are well understood: drastically reduce pollution, avert
complete climate chaos, stop the assault of petrochemical toxins on
our bodies, end war for oil, and localize economics. So that these
needs are understood to a greater degree by more and more people, we
engage in education and activism oriented toward the big picture and
fundamental change, rather than reforming the system we often refer to
as the dominant paradigm.
Web: http://www.culturechange.org
Keys: analysis; climate change; economics; energy; Humboldt County;
petroleum; policy; sustainability; transportation; urban sprawl
[Contact data last verified 16 Jan 2016]
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Name: Cycles of Change
Address: 1246 23rd Avenue
Oakland CA 94606
Voice: (510) 842-1006
Text: Works to improve the health and sustainability of our neighborhoods by
increasing the use of bicycles as transportation, connecting youth
with the extraordinary living systems of our local area, and building
a diverse community of visionary young leaders.
The organization began in 1998 at Roosevelt Middle School in East
Oakland and has grown steadily to sites in Oakland, Alameda, and
Berkeley.
Email: info@cyclesofchange.org
Web: http://www.cyclesofchange.org/
Keys: classes / courses; cycling; neighborhoods; public education;
sustainability; urban life; youth
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Name: Daily Acts
Address: 245 Kentucky Street
Petaluma CA 94953
Voice: (707) 789-9664
Text: A sustainability non-profit that inspires action to create more
nourishing, connected, and resilient communities. Grounded in the core
belief that every choice you make matters, we take a heart-centered
approach to personal and community transformation. Our education
programs, action campaigns, and strategic alliances connect people to
each other and to their own power to grow food, conserve resources and
build local resilience.
Web: http://www.DailyActs.org
Keys: classes / courses; community-building; conservation; education; local
food; permaculture; self-reliance; Sonoma County; sustainability
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Name: Dark Mountain Project
Text: A network of writers, artists and thinkers who have stopped believing
the stories our civilisation tells itself. We see that the world is
entering an age of ecological collapse, material contraction and
social and political unravelling, and we want our cultural responses
to reflect this reality rather than denying it.
The Project grew out of a feeling that contemporary literature and art
were failing to respond honestly or adequately to the scale of our
entwined ecological, economic and social crises. We believe that
writing and art have a crucial role to play in coming to terms with
this reality, and in questioning the foundations of the world in which
we find ourselves.
Web: https://dark-mountain.net/
Keys: art; limits to economic growth; writers
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Name: David Brower Center
Address: 2150 Allston Way, Suite 100
Berkeley CA 94704
Voice: (510) 809-0900
Fax: (510) 809-0909
Text: Provides a home for the environmental movement by advocating for the
beauty, diversity and ecological integrity of Earth. The Brower Center
accomplishes this mission through a distinctive combination of
permanent infrastructure and ongoing programs in a unique institution
that
Informs the public about the environmental challenges we face and
the bold actions we must take if ours is to remain a living planet;
Inspires people to recognize their own power and responsibility to
act on behalf of the Earth; and
Connects individuals and organizations dedicated to social equity
and ecological sustainability.
Email: contact@browercenter.org
Web: http://www.browercenter.org/
Keys: ecology; spaces for events; sustainability
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Name: DCARA (Deaf, Counseling, Advocacy & Referral Agency)
Address: 14895 East 14th Street, Suite 200
San Leandro CA 94578-2926
Voice: (510) 343-6670 VP & Voice
Fax: (510) 483-1790
Text: A non-profit, community-based social service agency serving the Deaf,
Hard of Hearing, Late-Deafened and Deaf-blind (D/HH/LD/DB)community.
Established in 1962 as one of the first Deaf-run agencies in the
country, DCARA provides a comprehensive range of programs and services
to the Deaf community living in the Greater San Francisco Bay Area of
California.
Email: info@dcara.org
Web: http://www.dcara.org
Keys: Alameda County (below Oakland); disabilities; self-determination;
services
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Name: Deaf Queer Resource Center (DQRC)
Text: A national nonprofit resource and information center for, by and about
the Deaf Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Transsexual, Intersex
and Questioning communities. This is "the place" to find the most
comprehensive and accurate information about this unique community.
Web: http://www.deafqueer.org/
Keys: disabilities; sexual minorities
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Name: Death of a Million Trees
Text: Although we have preferences, we like all trees and we don’t like to
see any healthy tree destroyed. Unfortunately, others believe their
preference for certain trees justifies the destruction of those they
don’t like.
The purpose of this blog is to inform the San Francisco Bay Area of
the destruction of trees and to confront the rationale for their
destruction.
We will describe the projects in the San Francisco Bay Area that have
destroyed or are planning to destroy over a half million trees. There
are probably many other projects of which we are unaware. We invite
you to tell us about the projects that you know about.
Web: http://milliontrees.me
Keys: blogs; deforestation; trees
[Contact data last verified 14 Jan 2017]
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Name: Death Penalty Focus
Address: 5 Third Street, Suite 725
San Francisco CA 94103
Voice: (415) 243-0143
Fax: (415) 766-4593
Text: Founded in 1988, Death Penalty Focus is committed to the abolition of
the death penalty through public education, grassroots organizing and
political advocacy, media outreach, and domestic and international
coalition building.
We believe that the death penalty is an ineffective, cruel, and
simplistic response to the serious and complex problem of violent
crime. It institutionalizes discrimination against the poor and people
of color, diverts attention and financial resources away from
preventative measures that would actually increase public safety,
risks the execution of innocent people, and does not deter crime.
Email: information@deathpenalty.org
Web: http://www.deathpenalty.org/
Keys: death penalty; law; newspapers
[Contact data last verified 28 Oct 2017]
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Name: Death with Dignity National Center (DDNC)
Text: Mission is to promote Death with Dignity laws based on our model
legislation, the Oregon Death with Dignity Act, both to provide an
option for dying individuals and to stimulate nationwide improvements
in end-of-life care.
Web: http://www.deathwithdignity.org
Keys: civil liberties; health; healthcare access; lobbying;
physician-assisted suicide
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Name: Defend Knowland Park
Text: Knowland Park (Ohlone Territory called Huchiun) is a 500-acre wild
open space in the Oakland hills of California. It was deeded to the
City by the State in the 1970's under the condition that it would
always remain a public park but now the Oakland Zoo is trying to
expand onto the park, fencing in a large portion of the area and will
cut down dozens of trees, some of which are old growth Oaks. The
western highlands and northern slopes are currently a home to rare
native plant communities, thriving but threatened wildlife, and a
critical migratory corridor for coyotes, mountain lions and bobcats.
The park is also home to threatened species of animals such as the
Alameda Whipsnake and The Great Horned Owl.
Web: http://defendknowlandpark.org/
Keys: endangered species / habitat; open space; parks; trees; wildlife
[Contact data last verified 18 Aug 2015]
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Name: Defend Science
Address: 2124 Kittridge Street #182
Berkeley CA 94704
Text: We have launched an ad hoc emergency initiative from – and reaching
out to – scientists in various fields, science educators, science
writers, etc. Coming from a diversity of perspectives, we are
extremely concerned about the current attack on science, including on
its very foundation in scientific method and thinking. Our goal is to
mobilize scientists and issue this public call, "Defend Science,"
whose purpose is nothing less than to bring society wide attention to
the real issues and the real stakes.
We launched the Defend Science website in the summer of 2005 and at
that time started to circulate the Defend Science Statement broadly.
Email: mail@defendscience.org
Web: http://defendscience.org/
Keys: religious right; science
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Name: Defenders of Wildlife
Text: A major national conservation organization focused solely on wildlife
and habitat conservation and the safeguarding of biodiversity. We
believe in the inherent value of wildlife and the natural world, and
this singular focus defines our important niche in the environmental
and conservation community and serves as the anchor for our
organizational values.
Web: http://www.defenders.org/
Keys: diversity; endangered species / habitat; wilderness; wildlife
[Contact data last verified 06 Jul 2015]
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Name: Defense of Place
Address: 187 East Blithedale Avenue
Mill Valley CA 94941
Voice: (415) 928-3774
Text: A nimble watchdog organization that upholds the inviolability of
protected lands. Defense of Place collaborates with citizen activists
nationwide to protect parks, nature preserves, wildlife refuges, open
spaces, and conservation easements from sale, development and
predatory changes in use. While climate change may affect landscapes'
character and species over time, Defense of Place is committed to the
principal of saving land in perpetuity for the benefit of future
generations. Whether it's honoring a donor's legacy or protecting a
public asset, Defense of Place can help save a protected place you
love.
Email: info@rri.org
Web: http://defenseofplace.rri.org/
Keys: conservation; development; land use; Marin County; parks; wildlife
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Name: Demand Progress
Text: We work to win progressive policy changes for ordinary people through
organizing and grassroots lobbying. We focus on issues of civil
liberties, civil rights, and government reform.
We run online campaigns to rally people to take action on the news
that affects them — by contacting Congress and other leaders, funding
pressure tactics, and spreading the word in their own communities.
We work in Washington to provide an advocate for the public in all the
decisions that affect our lives.
Web: https://demandprogress.org
Keys: civil liberties; civil rights; government; lobbying; policy
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Name: Democracy at Work Institute
Address: 1904 Franklin Street, Suite 400
Oakland CA 94612
Voice: (415) 379-9201
Text: Democracy at Work Institute was created by the U.S. Federation of
Worker Cooperatives (USFWC) to ensure that worker cooperative
development in economically and socially marginalized communities is
adequately supported, effective, and strategically directed.
It is the only national organization dedicated to building the field
of worker cooperative development. Through research, education and
relationship-building, it meets the need for coordination of:
existing resources
development of standards and leaders
critical discussion of models and best practices, and
advocacy for worker cooperatives as a community economic
development strategy
Email: info@institute.coop
Web: http://institute.coop/
Keys: cooperatives; democracy; development; labor; leadership development;
research
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Name: Democracy Center, The
Address: POBox 22157
San Francisco CA 94122
Voice: (415) 564-4767
Fax: (978) 383-1269
Text: Works globally to help citizens understand and influence the public
decisions that impact their lives. Through a combination of
investigation and reporting, advocacy training, and leading
international citizen campaigns, we have worked with social and
environmental justice activists in more than three-dozen countries on
five continents. As The Democracy Center begins its third decade, a
special emphasis of our work is strengthening citizen action on the
global climate crisis and helping citizens challenge the power of
corporations.
Email: contact@democracyctr.org
Web: http://www.democracyctr.org/
Keys: classes / courses; climate change; corporations; counseling;
democracy; ecology; economic justice; environmental justice;
investigative journalism; technical assistance
[Contact data last verified 14 Apr 2017]
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Name: Democracy Unlimited of Humboldt County (DUHC)
Text: A community organizing group located in Humboldt County, CA. We work
locally and across the country to help ordinary Americans reclaim our
power from corporate rule. We're all about organizing at the local
level to grow healthy communities and a democratic society. Check out
the pages above to learn more about our organization and get involved.
Web: http://www.duhc.org/
Keys: classes / courses; corporations; democracy; Humboldt County;
initiatives; newsletters
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Name: Depave
Text: Promotes the transformation of over-paved places to overcome the
social and environmental impacts of pavement. We engage communities
and reconnect urban landscapes to nature through action-oriented
projects, education, advocacy and stewardship.
Envisions livable cities where people and wildlife coexist and prosper
amidst clean air, clean water, robust urban forests, thriving local
agriculture, and engaged communities.
Web: http://depave.org/
Keys: automobiles; development; local food; urban life; wildlife
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Name: Desert Survivors
Text: An affiliation of desert lovers committed to experiencing, sharing and
protecting desert wilderness wherever we find it. We recognize the
places we love to explore will not remain wild unless we give others
the opportunity to experience them as we do and unless we remain
vigilant and active in our efforts to monitor and preserve them.
Web: http://www.desert-survivors.org
Keys: conservation; desert; hiking; travel; wilderness
[Contact data last verified 06 Jul 2015]
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Name: Design Action Collective
Address: 1730 Franklin Street #103
Oakland CA 94612
Voice: (510) 452-1912
Text: Provides graphic design and visual communications for progressive,
non-profit and social change organizations. By providing these
high-quality professional services, we seek to contribute to building
a broad and effective progressive movement and participate in the
struggle for social justice.
Email: info@designaction.org
Web: http://www.designaction.org/
Keys: art; collectives; media; printers
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Name: Destiny Arts (De-Escalation Skills Training Inspiring Nonviolence in
Youth)
Address: 970 Grace Avenue
Oakland CA 94608
Voice: (510) 597-1619
Text: Exists to end isolation, prejudice and violence in the lives of young
people.
We accomplish our mission by:
* Offering skills training to youth, ages 3-18, through after-school,
weekend and summer programs in the performing and martial arts, and
violence prevention at our main site, and in outreach programs at
local schools and community centers.
* Providing youth with caring adult mentors.
* Supporting youth in developing an individualized series of artistic
expression.
* Giving youth opportunities to share a message of peace and
empowerment through performances, events, and workshops.
* Nurturing the physical, emotional and spiritual development of young
people.
Email: info@destinyarts.org
Web: http://www.destinyarts.org/
Keys: art; children; classes / courses; conflict resolution; dance;
leadership development; martial arts; multiculturalism; outdoor
activity; peace; prevention; theatre; violence; youth
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Name: Development Group for Alternative Policies, The
Text: Assists in the promotion of economic justice across the South, or
Third World, by helping to maximize control by poor communities and
sectors over their own development in the face of impositions from the
North. It was founded on the principle of the right to
self-determination and on the belief that local knowledge is
indispensable to the shaping of sound development policies, programs
and projects relevant to local needs and conditions.
Web: http://www.developmentgap.org/
Keys: development; distribution of wealth; economic justice; policy;
self-determination
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Name: Disability Rights Education and Defense Fund (DREDF)
Address: 3075 Adeline Street, Suite 210
Berkeley CA 94703
Voice: (510) 644-2555
Fax: (510) 841-8645 (fax and tty)
Text: A leading national civil rights law and policy center directed by
individuals with disabilities and parents who have children with
disabilities.
Americans with disabilities make up one of the United States’ largest
minorities. More than 25% live in poverty and only about 20% have gone
to college. Seventy–five percent are unemployed. Such economic and
social disenfranchisement is not an inevitable consequence of the
physical and mental limitations imposed by disability; it is the
result of society’s historic response to those limitations: lack of
accessibility in the built environment and policies that encourage or
even require exclusion, segregation, and institutionalization. The
result is a legacy of prejudice and paternalism that is deeply
embedded in the social consciousness.
Email: info@dredf.org
Web: http://www.dredf.org
Keys: children; civil rights; disabilities; legal defense; policy
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Name: DisabledCommunity.Org (DCO)
Address: 275 Fifth Street, Suite 419
San Francisco CA 94103
Voice: (415) 508-6130
Text: Seeks to educate by sharing information both online and in the
community. We are run by volunteers.
Our website makes a great starting point that provides resources and
information to help improve the quality of life for people with
disabilities, their family, friends, caregivers and social service
agencies.
Email: admin@disabledcommunity.org
Web: http://www.disabledcommunity.org
Keys: disabilities; employment
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Name: Dissident Voice (DV)
Text: An internet newsletter dedicated to challenging the distortions and
lies of the corporate press and the privileged classes it serves. The
goal of Dissident Voice is to provide hard hitting, thought provoking
and even entertaining news and commentaries on politics and culture
that can serve as ammunition in struggles for peace and social
justice.
Web: http://www.dissidentvoice.org/
Keys: editorial comment; media criticism; newsletters; propaganda
[Contact data last verified 06 Jul 2015]
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Name: Dollars and Sense
Text: Publishes economic news and analysis, reports on economic justice
activism, primers on economic topics, and critiques of the mainstream
media's coverage of the economy. Our readers include professors,
students, and activists who value our smart and accessible economic
coverage.
Web: http://www.dollarsandsense.org/
Keys: analysis; economic justice; economics; magazines
[Contact data last verified 19 Oct 2014]
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Name: Donnelly / Colt Progressive Resources Catalog
Text: A family-owned and operated mailorder business that has been designing
and distributing union-made progressive materials promoting peace,
social and environmental justice and human rights since 1975. We also
offer a full range of custom printing services, prompt, inexpensive,
quality union printing. Since 2009 we generate our electricity from
46 solar photovoltaic panels that power our home and business.
Web: http://www.donnellycolt.com
Keys: book sellers; bumperstickers; buttons; mail-order; posters and flyers;
products; T-shirts
[Contact data last verified 28 Oct 2017]
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Name: Dorothy Day House
Address: POBox 12701
Berkeley CA 94712
Voice: (925) 519-9881
Text: We are a Berkeley-centered nonprofit founded in the spirit of social
change activist Dorothy Day, providing nutritional support, emergency
winter shelter, and other services to Berkeley's homeless and very
low-income residents.
Email: dorothydayhouse@gmail.com
Web: http://dorothydayhouse.org
Keys: homelessness; hunger; low-income; services; shelters
[Contact data last verified 08 Feb 2015]
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Name: DrawBridge: An Arts Program for Homeless Children
Address: POBox 2698
San Rafael CA 94912
Voice: (415) 444-0930
Text: Mission is to provide art programs for homeless and other underserved
children in an environment that fosters their sense of joy, creativity
and exuberance.
Email: drawbridge@drawbridge.org
Web: http://www.drawbridge.org
Keys: art; children; family; homelessness
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Name: Drinking Liberally (DL)
Text: An informal, inclusive progressive social group. Raise your spirits
while you raise your glass, and share ideas while you share a pitcher.
Drinking Liberally gives like-minded, left-leaning individuals a place
to talk politics. You don't need to be a policy expert and this isn't
a book club - just come and learn from peers, trade jokes, vent
frustration and hang out in an environment where it's not taboo to
talk politics.
Bars are democratic spaces - you talk to strangers, you share booths,
you feel the bond of common ground. Bring democratic discourse to your
local democratic space - build democracy one drink at a time.
Web: http://livingliberally.org/drinking/
Keys: beer; networking
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Name: Drug Policy Alliance, San Francisco Bay Area Office (DPA Network)
Address: 1330 Broadway, Suite 1426
Oakland CA 94612
Text: The nation's leading organization promoting drug policies that are
grounded in science, compassion, health and human rights.
Our supporters are individuals who believe the war on drugs is doing
more harm than good. Together we advance policies that reduce the
harms of both drug use and drug prohibition, and seek solutions that
promote safety while upholding the sovereignty of individuals over
their own minds and bodies. We work to ensure that our nation’s drug
policies no longer arrest, incarcerate, disenfranchise and otherwise
harm millions – particularly young people and people of color who are
disproportionately affected by the war on drugs.
Web: http://www.drugpolicy.org
Keys: coalitions; drugs; human rights; policy; public health; science
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Name: Drug Reform Coalition Network (DRCNet)
Text: Works for an end to drug prohibition worldwide, and an end to the
"drug war" in its current form. We believe that much of the harm
commonly attributed to "drugs" is really the result of placing drugs
in a criminal environment. We believe the global drug war has fueled
violence, civil instability, and public health crises; and that the
currently prevalent arrest- and punishment-based policies toward drugs
are unjust.
Web: http://www.drcnet.org/
Keys: coalitions; drugs; harm reduction; health; incarceration; law; policy
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Name: Earth Island Institute
Address: 2150 Allston Way, Suite 460
Berkeley CA 94704-1375
Voice: (510) 859-9100
Fax: (510) 859-9091
Text: A non-profit, public interest, membership organization that supports
people who are creating solutions to protect our shared planet. Since
1982, Earth Island Institute has been a hub for grassroots campaigns
dedicated to conserving, preserving, and restoring the ecosystems on
which our civilization depends.
Our Project Support program acts as an incubator for start-up
environmental projects, giving crucial assistance to groups and
individuals with new ideas for promoting ecological sustainability.
In addition to our project support work, we also inform and inspire
people to take action through our award-winning quarterly magazine,
Earth Island Journal, our New Leaders Initiative, and our Restoration
Initiative.
Web: http://www.earthisland.org
Keys: conservation; ecology; endangered species / habitat; magazines
[Contact data last verified 23 Oct 2016]
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Name: Earth Policy Institute (EPI)
Text: Founded to provide a plan of a sustainable future along with a
roadmap of how to get from here to there. EPI works at the global
level simply because no country can fully implement a Plan B economy
in isolation.
EPI’s goals are (1) to provide a global plan (Plan B) for moving the
world onto an environmentally and economically sustainable path, (2)
to provide examples demonstrating how the plan would work, and (3) to
keep the media, policymakers, academics, environmentalists, and other
decision-makers focused on the process of building a Plan B economy.
Web: http://www.earth-policy.org
Keys: ecology; economics; policy; sustainability
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Name: Earth Share California (Northern California office)
Address: 870 Market Street, Suite 703
San Francisco CA 94102
Voice: (415) 981-1999
(800) 368-1819
Fax: (415) 800-6592
Text: Coordinates workplace giving for over eighty carefully selected
environmental charities. Part of the national Earth Share network,
EarthShare California offers business partners the opportunity to
connect with the most respected organizations, offering solutions to
environmental business questions, volunteer opportunities and
networking. Our member organizations have been instrumental in
maintaining the California landscape, and many have influenced
eco-friendly legislation, including the tax credit for energy
efficient vehicles.
Email: esca@earthshareca.org
Web: http://www.earthshareca.org
Keys: ecology; fundraising
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Name: Earthjustice
Address: 50 California Street, Suite 500
San Francisco CA 94111
Voice: (415) 217-2000
Fax: (415) 217-2040
Text: The nation’s premier nonprofit environmental law organization. We
wield the power of law and the strength of partnership to protect
people’s health, to preserve magnificent places and wildlife, to
advance clean energy, and to combat climate change. We are here
because the earth needs a good lawyer.
Email: info@earthjustice.org
Web: http://www.earthjustice.org
Keys: ecology; lawyers; legal defense
[Contact data last verified 23 Jul 2017]
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Name: EarthLight: Journal for Ecological and Spiritual Living
Address: 111 Fairmount Avenue
Oakland CA 94611
Voice: (510) 451-4926
Text: A seedbed and greenhouse of eco-spiritual writing, artwork and video
brought to you by the EarthLight Community in Oakland, California
featuring original work and links to the evolving world of
earth-inclusive spirituality.
Email: Admin@EarthLight.org
Web: http://www.earthlight.org
Keys: ecology; magazines; psychology; religion; science; spirituality
[Contact data last verified 21 Feb 2015]
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Name: EarthRights International (ERI)
Text: Combines the power of law and the power of people in defense of human
rights and the environment, which we define as "earth rights." We
specialize in fact-finding, legal actions against perpetrators of
earth rights abuses, training grassroots and community leaders, and
advocacy campaigns. Through these strategies, EarthRights
International seeks to end earth rights abuses, to provide real
solutions for real people, and to promote and protect human rights and
the environment in the communities where we work.
Web: http://www.earthrights.org/
Keys: development; ecology; health; human rights; law
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Name: EarthSave Foundation
Text: EarthSave's Meals for Health program teaches a lifestyle and
plant-based diet proven to reverse serious diseases, get subjects off
medication, and greatly improve the participants' quality of life.
Until now, these programs have been available exclusively to wealthy
individuals or employees of forward-thinking companies. We make them
available at no cost to needy individuals and families.
Web: http://www.earthsave.org
Keys: food; health; low-income; veganism / vegetarianism
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Name: East Bay Agency for Children (EBAC)
Address: 303 Van Buren Avenue
Oakland CA 94610
Voice: (510) 268-3770
Fax: (510) 268-1073
Text: Improves the well-being of children, youth and families by reducing
the impact of trauma and social inequities.
We are committed to building a comprehensive, place-based continuum of
accessible, trauma informed and culturally relevant services that
build resiliency, aid in recovery, and, where possible, prevent
exposure to adverse childhood experiences. We seek to reduce barriers
that contribute to disparities in wellness for socioeconomically
disadvantaged and racially marginalized families and to create
communities where all children and families have supports to reach
their full potential.
Email: info@ebac.org
Web: http://www.ebac.org/
Keys: children; counseling; health; services; support groups
[Contact data last verified 22 Jan 2018]
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Name: East Bay Alliance for a Sustainable Economy (EBASE)
Address: 360 14th Street, 4th Floor
Oakland CA 94612
Voice: (510) 893-7106
Text: Advances economic, racial, and social justice by building a just
economy in the East Bay based on good jobs and healthy communities. We
address the root causes of economic injustice by developing strategic
alliances among community, labor, and people of faith to build power
and create change with low-income workers and communities of color.
Email: info@workingeastbay.org
Web: http://www.workingeastbay.org
Keys: coalitions; development; discrimination; economics; employment;
family; immigrants; labor; legislation; living wage; people of color;
policy
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Name: East Bay Asian Local Development Corporation (EBALDC)
Address: 1825 San Pablo Suite 200
Oakland CA 94612
Voice: (510) 287-5353
Text: A nonprofit community development organization celebrating 40 years of
building healthy, vibrant and safe neighborhoods in Oakland and the
greater East Bay. We develop and manage high quality affordable
apartments and homes, retail spaces for local small businesses and
community centers, while fostering increased economic opportunities
for low-income families and individuals. These comprehensive programs
help families and individuals begin a path toward financially security
and access the resources they need to lead healthy, stable and
fulfilling lives.
Email: communications@ebaldc.org
Web: http://www.ebaldc.org
Keys: development; housing; low-income; services
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Name: East Bay Atheists
Voice: (510) 222-7580
Text: Meets each month in the Berkeley main library to discuss atheism and
other topical events of interests to atheists. Our collective mission
includes local activism when "freethinkers" rights to be free from
religion are threatened, or when government promotes religion.
An Atheist is one who has no belief in or knowledge of any god/gods.
We want to live a religion-free life. We promote our US Constitutional
right of freedom from religion. We do not want our taxes supporting
religion or faith-based organizations. We invite fellow Atheists to
join us in peacefully promoting our principles and protecting our
rights.
Email: info@eastbayatheists.org
Web: http://www.eastbayatheists.org
Keys: religion; separation of church and state
[Contact data last verified 21 Feb 2015]
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Name: East Bay Bicycle Coalition (EBBC)
Address: POBox 1736
Oakland CA 94604
Voice: (510) 845-RIDE (7433)
Text: Promotes healthy, sustainable communities by making bicycling safe,
fun and accessible.
The East Bay is a leader for innovative and accessible bikeways and
streets that meet the needs of all users. Bicycling is a mainstream,
comfortable and safe choice for people of all cultures, ages,
abilities, and backgrounds. Bicycles are well integrated into the
transportation system and are a key part of our thriving communities.
Office is in Jack London Square in Oakland.
Web: http://www.ebbc.org/
Keys: coalitions; county government; cycling; municipal government; policy;
transportation
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Name: East Bay Bike Party (EBBP)
Text: A mobile party for riders of all ages, experience levels, and types to
meet, ride, and play together in the streets. Rides are 12-16 miles
long with 2 stops at public spaces along the route. Rides move at a
slow pace and volunteers assure everyone makes the correct turns.
Riders express their creativity through the ride’s theme. Music is a
big part of the EBBP experience along the route and at the party stops
where dancing is common. Each ride is a unique, once in a lifetime
experience right here in your own backyard.
Once per month, all year long. We meet at 7:30pm of every single
SECOND FRIDAY of the month, and roll out at 8pm. We’re always near a
BART station in time to get back on one of the later trains.
Web: https://eastbaybikeparty.wordpress.com/
Keys: cycling; dance; music; transportation
[Contact data last verified 21 Mar 2015]
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Name: East Bay Cohousing (EBCOHO)
Text: East Bay Cohousing is for people interested in intentional communities
and creating ways of meeting our daily needs for shelter and
livelihood through cooperative long-term relationships among peers.
We are a big tent for all manner of self-governing member-led
"collaborative housing" communities, including housing cooperatives,
student coops, collective and co-living households, as well as
co-housing neighborhoods, urban and rural eco-villages, faith-based or
service oriented, moshads, kibbutzes and income sharing communes!
EBCOHO Members come from every county in the Bay Area, and other parts
of the US and the world.
Web: http://www.meetup.com/ebcoho/
Keys: building materials; calendars; cohousing; community-building;
cooperative living; facilitation; intentional communities; seniors;
technical assistance
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Name: East Bay Community Law Center (EBCLC)
Address: 2921 Adeline Street
Berkeley CA 94703
Voice: (510) 548-4040
Text: Mission is to promote justice and build a community that is more
healthy, secure, productive and hopeful by providing:
legal services and policy advocacy that are responsive to the
needs of low-income communities, and
law training that prepares future attorneys to be skilled and
principled advocates that are committed to finding innovative
solutions to the cause and conditions of poverty.
Email: info@ebclc.org
Web: http://www.ebclc.org/
Keys: AIDS / HIV; development; homelessness; housing; lawyers; legal
services; low-income; students; welfare
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Name: East Bay Democratic Socialists of America (DSA)
Text: DSA is the country's largest socialist organization. We are building
progressive movements for social change in Oakland, Berkeley, and
throughout the East Bay while establishing an openly democratic
socialist presence in American communities and politics.
Democratic Socialists believe that both the economy and society should
be run democratically to meet human needs, not to make profits for a
few. We are a political and activist organization, not a party;
through campus and community-based chapters DSA members use a variety
of tactics, from legislative to direct action, to fight for reforms
that empower working people.
Email: info@eastbaydsa.org
Web: http://www.eastbaydsa.org/
http://www.dsausa.org
Keys: democracy; direct action; economics; legislation; socialism
[Contact data last verified 03 Jul 2017]
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Name: East Bay Pesticide Alert (Don't Spray California)
Address: 2399 East 14th Street #24
San Leandro CA 94577
Voice: (510) 895-2312
Text: Does not compromise around health. Advocates NO use of pesticides.
Because our very lives depend on ridding the world of toxic pesticides. And
because a real community means we don't need to evacuate the
chemically sensitive, the old, the young, the immune
system-compromised.
Email: beneficialbug@sonic.net
Web: http://www.eastbaypesticidealert.org
Keys: deforestation; health; multiple chemical sensitivity; pesticides;
toxics
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Name: East Bay Sanctuary Covenant (EBSC)
Address: 2362 Bancroft Way
Berkeley CA 94704
Voice: (510) 540-5296
Text: Offers sanctuary, solidarity, support, community organizing
assistance, advocacy, and legal services to those escaping war,
terror, political persecution, intolerance, exploitation, and other
expressions of violence. We intentionally provide opportunities for
transformational learning that arise from the relationships we fosters
among refugees, immigrants, and host communities. We join with others
to understand and eliminate the causes of violence and oppression
worldwide.
Email: info@eastbaysanctuary.org
Web: http://www.eastbaysanctuary.org
Keys: human rights; immigrants; legal services; low-income; policy;
refugees; religion
[Contact data last verified 23 Oct 2016]
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Name: East Timor and Indonesia Action Network (ETAN)
Text: A U.S.-based grassroots organization working in solidarity with the
peoples of Timor-Leste (East Timor), West Papua and Indonesia. ETAN
provides information about, and ways to help, Timor-Leste, which was
invaded and subjugated by U.S. ally Indonesia in 1975. East Timor
chose independence in August 1999 and was soon destroyed by the
Indonesian military. Timor-Leste finally became independent on May 20,
2002. ETAN educates, organizes, and advocates for justice for
historic and ongoing crimes against humanity, war crimes, and human
rights violations in East Timor, West Papua, and Indonesia. ETAN
supports democratic reconstruction of Timor-Leste. ETAN supports
restrictions on military assistance to Indonesia in order to support
democracy and justice.
Web: http://www.etan.org/
Keys: East Timor; Indonesia; militarism; networking; self-determination
[Contact data last verified 16 Jan 2016]
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Name: Eat Drink Politcs (CIFC)
Voice: (510) 465-0322 (Michele Simon)
Text: If you want to enact policy reform that threatens the food or beverage
industry in any way, you have to understand your opponent. At Eat
Drink Politics, we understand the challenges of taking on the likes of
McDonald’s, PepsiCo, and Anheuser-Busch InBev. With more than 17 years
of experience in corporate research and advocacy, we can help you
counter underhanded industry tactics that threaten public health. We
have a broad expertise that includes health, law, policy, economics,
and marketing, combined with a passion for exposing and countering
corporate public relations and lobbying. Our clients include
non-profits, law firms, and political campaigns.
Web: http://www.appetiteforprofit.com/
Keys: books; consumer protection; food; local economy; organic agriculture;
public health; watchdog groups
[Contact data last verified 11 Jan 2015]
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Name: Ecocity Builders
Address: 339 15th Street, Suite 208
Oakland CA 94612
Voice: (510) 452-9522
Text: We develop and implement policy, design and educational tools and
strategies to build thriving urban centers based on “access by
proximity” and to reverse patterns of sprawl and excessive
consumption.
Ecocity Builders and associates’ definition of “ecocity” is
conditional upon a healthy relationship of the city’s parts and
functions, similar to the relationship of organs in living complex
organism. We are concerned with city design, planning, building, and
operations in an integral way and in relation to the surrounding
environment and natural resources of the region, utilizing organic,
ecological and whole-systems lessons to actually reverse the negative
impacts of climate change, species extinction and the destruction of
the biosphere.
Email: info@ecocitybuilders.org
Web: http://www.ecocitybuilders.org
Keys: architecture; development; ecology; gardening; housing; land use;
solar energy; speakers; sustainability; transportation; urban life;
urban sprawl
[Contact data last verified 27 May 2017]
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Name: Ecological Building Network
Address: POBox 6397
San Rafael CA 94903
Voice: (415) 491-4802
Text: An open, collaborative group of builders, scientists, architects and
engineeers sharing the best knowledge we can find for everyone's
benefit. Here you will find practical technical guidance by for
designing and constructing better buildings, wherever you are. Whether
you are building a straw bale home in Argentina, a low-income village
with shipping containers in Shanghai, or a concrete office structure
in Sacramento, we have information you can use.
Email: bruce@ecobuildnetwork.org
Web: http://www.ecobuildnetwork.org/
Keys: architecture; building materials; developing world; development;
housing; policy; sustainability; technical assistance; toxics
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Name: Ecological Farming Association (EcoFarm)
Text: Mission is to nurture safe, healthy, just, and ecologically
sustainable farms, food systems, and communities by bringing people
together for education, alliance building, advocacy, and celebration.
Through educational conferences, training programs, on-farm events and
communications initiatives, the Ecological Farming Association
supports farms working to achieve a Triple Bottom Line. Since its
inception in 1981, EcoFarm has facilitated hands-on learning,
interactive teaching models, and farmer-to-farmer education.
Web: http://www.eco-farm.org
Keys: biodiversity; conservation; health; organic agriculture; rural life
[Contact data last verified 11 Feb 2016]
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Name: Ecology Action
Address: 5798 Ridgewood Road
Willits CA 95490
Voice: (707) 459-0150
Fax: (707) 459-5409
Text: Teaches people worldwide to better feed themselves while building and
preserving the soil and conserving resources.
Aware of intensifying world challenges and the basic need of people to
feed themselves, we have been working for 40 years to develop an
elegant, small-scale agricultural system — GROW BIOINTENSIVEà¤?
Sustainable Mini-Farming — that when practiced correctly, nurtures
healthy soil fertility, produces high yields, conserves resources and
can be used successfully by almost everyone. Our goal is to help this
system be known and used locally...on a worldwide basis.
Web: http://www.growbiointensive.org
Keys: do-it-yourself; gardening; history; organic agriculture; researchers;
seeds
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Name: Ecology Center
Address: 2530 San Pablo Avenue, Suite H (at Blake)
Berkeley CA 94702-2000
Voice: (510) 548-2220
(510) 548-3402 (store)
(510) 527-5555 (recycling program)
(510) 548-3333 (farmers markets)
Fax: (510) 548-2240
Text: Focuses on the environmental impacts of urban residents. We address
issues through educating, creating community momentum, building
infrastructure to make change easy, and spreading positive solutions
through convening and advocacy. Our core issues include waste and
consumerism, food and farming, climate change prevention and
resiliency, and sustainable living.
Mission is to inspire and build a sustainable, healthy, and just
future for the East Bay, California, and beyond. We transform the
ideals of sustainability into everyday practice. We deliver
information you can act on, infrastructure you can count on, and
leadership for lasting change.
Email: calendar@ecologycenter.org
Web: http://www.ecologycenter.org
Keys: bioregionalism; calendars; classes / courses; climate change; ecology;
farmers markets; libraries; recycling; sustainability
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Name: Ecology Center Of San Francisco (ECOSF)
Address: 424 Russia Street
San Francisco CA 94112
Voice: (415) 565-9576
Text: Cultivates ecological awareness in the San Francisco Bay Area. The
organization came to life in January of 2006 to provide resources,
education, and support to create sustainable and regenerative
communities within San Francisco.
We focus on ecological education, the science of relationships and
connections, to help the community better understand the local
environment, the greater world we live in and how to find our place in
the intricate web of life through cooperation not domination.
Email: info@eco-sf.org
Web: http://www.eco-sf.org/
Keys: ecology; gardening; renewable energy; sustainability
[Contact data last verified 06 Jul 2015]
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Name: Economic Policy Institute
Text: A nonprofit, nonpartisan think tank created in 1986 to include the
needs of low- and middle-income workers in economic policy
discussions. EPI believes every working person deserves a good job
with fair pay, affordable health care, and retirement security. To
achieve this goal, EPI conducts research and analysis on the economic
status of working America. EPI proposes public policies that protect
and improve the economic conditions of low- and middle-income workers
and assesses policies with respect to how they affect those workers.
Web: http://www.epi.org
Keys: analysis; distribution of wealth; economics; low-income; policy; think
tanks
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Name: EcoVegEvents.com
Text: An on-line calendar of environmental, animal protection, and
vegetarian events. You can submit your own events on-line.
Web: http://EcoVegEvents.com
Keys: animal liberation; calendars; ecology; veganism / vegetarianism
[Contact data last verified 23 Oct 2016]
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Name: EcoVillage Farm Learning Center
Address: 21 Laurel Lane
Richmond CA 94803
Voice: (510) 223-1693
Text: Our mission is to create a healthy sustainable environment and
socially/economically just society for present and future generations.
EcoVillage Farm Learning Center is a place where urban residents of
all cultural backgrounds feel welcome and come to learn through
(participatory) “mind/hands on” activities how to restore and protect
Mother Earth and her people.
EcoVillage Farm Learning Center is an “Oasis of Connectivity” in the
City of Richmond, a city that is often perceived of as a food, safety
and environment desert. Yes! A Farm in Richmond!
We offer “kids” of all ages (8-80) the opportunity to gain the
knowledge and skills needed to become environmental and social change
agents and/or just engage with nature for the “fun of it.”
Web: http://ecovillagefarm.org
Keys: Contra Costa County; economic justice; local food; organic
agriculture; urban life; youth
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Name: EcoViva
Address: 1904 Franklin Street, Suite 203
Oakland CA 94612
Voice: (510) 835-1334
Fax: (510) 280-2833
Text: Works in partnership and solidarity with community-led organizations
in Central America organized to achieve environmental sustainability,
economic security, social justice and peace. The vision and
implementation of our programs come from our local partners.
Email: info@ecoviva.org
Web: http://www.eco-viva.org
Keys: Central America; low-income; peace; self-sufficiency; solidarity;
sustainability
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Name: Ecumenical Hunger Program (EHP)
Address: 2411 Pulgas Avenue
East Palo Alto CA 94303
Voice: (650) 323-7781
Text: Mission is to assist local families and individuals who are
experiencing economic and personal hardship. EHP provides food,
clothing, household essentials, support, and advocacy to our neighbors
to sustain them through immediate crises and to help them regain
stability and independence.
EHP serves working families, seniors, people with limited incomes and
those who have both emergency and on-going needs in East Palo Alto,
Menlo Park and surrounding communities.
Email: info@ehpcares.org
Web: http://www.ehpcares.org/
Keys: clothing; family; food; hunger; services
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Name: Ecumenical Peace Institute / CALC (EPI)
Address: POBox 9334
Berkeley CA 94709
Voice: (510) 990-0374
Text: An interfaith justice and peace education action group. Focuses on
militarism, racism and empire and works with Native Americans,
political prisoners, and youth. Holds the Living Graveyard on the
third Monday of each month a legal street theater witness at which are
read the names of Iraqi dead in the ongoing violence initiated by tne
US in 2003. Also read are the names of US soldiers from California
killed in Afghanistan or Iraq, Palestinians killed in Gaza in Israeli
attacks in 2004, and the names of people of color killed by police or
vigilante violence in the US. EPI is a principal organizer (with LCP)
of the annual Good Friday Gathering for Worship and Witness at the
Livermore Nuclear Weapons Lab.
This is the Northern California chapter of Clergy and Laity Concerned.
Email: epicalc@gmail.com
epicalc@lmi.net
Web: http://www.epicalc.org
Keys: imperialism; Iraq; militarism; Native Americans; nuclear weapons /
testing; peace; political prisoners; racism; religion; vigils; youth
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Name: Edible City: The Movie
Text: A 55 minute documentary film that introduces a diverse cast of
extraordinary characters who are challenging the paradigm of our
broken food system.
The film digs deep into their unique perspectives and transformative
work, finding inspirational, grass-roots solutions based on growing
local food systems and economies.
Web: http://ediblecitythemovie.com/
Keys: film / video; land use; local food; organic agriculture; peak oil;
urban life
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Name: Edible East Bay
Address: 4200 Park Blvd. #267
Oakland CA 94602
Voice: (510) 225-5776
Text: A quarterly magazine that celebrates the abundant local foods of
Alameda and Contra Costa counties (or the EastBay, as we call it here
in the San Francisco Bay Area).
At edible East Bay, we believe that our food choices do make a
difference – to our health, to the health of our planet, and to our
enjoyment of life. With that in mind, we bring you news of our
region’s family farmers, fishermen, food artisans, chefs, home
gardeners, and others who have a dedication to producing and using
sustainably produced, local, seasonal foods. In this magazine’s
stories and images, we will let you know what’s happening right over
the back fence.
Email: editor@edibleeastbay.com
Web: http://edibleeastbay.com/
Keys: gardening; local food; magazines; sustainability
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Name: Edible Schoolyard Berkeley
Address: Martin Luther King, Jr. Middle School
1781 Rose Street
Berkeley CA 94703
Voice: (510) 558-1335
Fax: (510) 558-1334
Text: A one-acre organic garden and kitchen classroom for urban public
school students at Martin Luther King, Jr. Middle School. This model
program for edible education is fully funded by the Edible Schoolyard
Project. At ESY Berkeley, students participate in all aspects of
growing, harvesting, and preparing nutritious, seasonal produce during
the academic day and in after-school classes. Students’ hands-on
experience in the kitchen and garden fosters a deeper appreciation of
how the natural world sustains us and promotes the environmental and
social well-being of our school community.
The Edible Schoolyard program is fully integrated into the fabric of
the school. Lessons in the kitchen and garden classrooms bring
academic subjects to life and cultivate an appetite for fresh, healthy
food, as well as the confidence to prepare it at home.
Web: http://edibleschoolyard.org/berkeley
Keys: classes / courses; gardening; local food; organic agriculture; public
education; students
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Name: Edible Schoolyard Project
Address: 1517 Shattuck Avenue
Berkeley CA 94709
Voice: (510) 843-3811
Text: Mission is to build and share a national edible education curriculum
for pre-kindergarten through high school. We envision gardens and
kitchens as interactive classrooms for all academic subjects, and a
free, nutritious, organic lunch for every student. Integrating this
curriculum into schools can transform the health and values of every
child in America.
Web: http://edibleschoolyard.org
Keys: educational curriculum; gardening; nutrition; organic agriculture;
students
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Name: Education for Peace in Iraq Center (EPIC)
Text: EPIC’s ultimate vision is a safe and prosperous Iraq in which all
citizens live in freedom from want, freedom from fear, and freedom to
live with dignity. EPIC’s strategy is based on a human security
approach to aid relief and policy-making. Our goals are to educate
Americans about what’s needed for genuine peace in Iraq, provide
emergency assistance to the country’s most vulnerable populations, and
convince the international community to remain responsibly engaged in
Iraq by providing the humanitarian, security, and political support
necessary to break the cycle of violence.
Web: http://www.epic-usa.org/
Keys: Iraq; peace
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Name: Electric Embers
Address: 733 Page Street
San Francisco CA 94117
Voice: (800) 843-6197
Text: Provides technical services and know-how to people working to make the
world more just, sustainable, and beautiful. Our operations and client
selection are rooted in democratic and progressive values, and our
services in the core Internet values of freedom, privacy, and
security.
Email: info@electricembers.coop
Web: http://electricembers.coop
Keys: cooperatives; Internet; services; technical assistance; web site
hosting
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Name: Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF)
Address: 815 Eddy Street
San Francisco CA 94109
Voice: (415) 436-9333
Text: The leading nonprofit organization defending civil liberties in the
digital world. Founded in 1990, EFF champions user privacy, free
expression, and innovation through impact litigation, policy analysis,
grassroots activism, and technology development. We work to ensure
that rights and freedoms are enhanced and protected as our use of
technology grows.
Email: info@eff.org
Web: http://www.eff.org/
Keys: censorship; civil liberties; free speech; Internet; lawyers;
litigation; policy; privacy
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Name: Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC)
Text: An independent non-profit research center in Washington, DC. EPIC
works to protect privacy, freedom of expression, democratic values,
and to promote the Public Voice in decisions concerning the future of
the Internet. EPIC pursues a wide range of program activities
including public education, litigation, and advocacy. EPIC routinely
files amicus briefs in federal courts, pursues open government cases,
defends consumer privacy, organizes conferences for NGOs, and speaks
before Congress and judicial organizations about emerging privacy and
civil liberties issues. EPIC works closely with a distinguished
advisory board, with expertise in law, technology and public policy.
Web: http://www.epic.org
Keys: civil liberties; free speech; freedom of information; Internet;
litigation; open government; policy; privacy; researchers
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Name: Ella Baker Center for Human Rights
Address: 1970 Broadway, Suite 1125
Oakland CA 94612
Voice: (510) 428-3939
Text: The Ella Baker Center is named for an unsung hero of the civil rights
movement who inspired and guided emerging leaders. We build on her
legacy by giving people opportunities and skills to work together to
strengthen our communities so that all of us can thrive.
We believe that every person has the right to safety, to dignity, to
equality, and to self-determination. Our work aims to defend and
advance these rights in the United States.
Web: http://www.ellabakercenter.org
Keys: civil rights; human rights; incarceration; police accountability;
racism; watchdog groups
[Contact data last verified 25 Oct 2014]
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Name: ELV Motors
Address: 2070 Homestead Road
Santa Clara CA 95050
Voice: (888) 612-9883
Text: Specializes in delivering high-quality electric bikes to fleets and
consumers from some of the best companies like, BH Emotion, Currie
Tech, Haibike, Stromer, Stealth, A2B, VeloMini, Prodeco, Emazing,
Ecoreco, EB Bikes, Pedego, and others.
Established in 2008 in the heart of Silicon Valley, ELV Motors, Inc.
has a showroom for test rides, as well as a full service shop to
handle warranty and non-warranty service on all the brands we carry.
We offer the largest selection of major brand electric bicycles in
Northern California.
Email: contact@elvmotors.com
Web: https://www.elvmotors.com
Keys: cycling; electric scooters; Santa Clara County; transportation
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Name: Emerald Earth
Address: POBox 764
Boonville CA 95415
Voice: (707) 972-3096
Text: An intentional community in the hills above Anderson Valley in
Northern California. With nine full time residents, we care for the
land, grow the majority of our own food, and sustain a community
designed to benefit rather than deplete the planet. You are welcome to
join us for natural building workshops, work parties, scheduled tours,
or even overnight visits. Our purpose is to honor the sacredness of
the Earth and the interconnectedness of all things; to celebrate the
rhythms and cycles of the Earth through ritual; to live…
Email: community@emeraldearth.org
Web: http://www.emeraldearth.org
Keys: books; building materials; classes / courses; energy; intentional
communities; Mendocino County; organic agriculture; permaculture;
rural life; sustainability
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Name: Emma Goldman Papers, The
Address: 2241 Channing Way
Berkeley CA 94720-6030
Voice: (510) 642-4708
(510) 642-0658 (office)
Text: A national initiative to retrieve the papers of individuals whose life
work has had a lasting impact on the course of American history. Since
1980, the Emma Goldman Papers Project at UC Berkeley has collected,
organized, and edited tens of thousands of documents from around the
world by and about Emma Goldman (1869-1940), a leading figure in
American anarchism, feminism, and radicalism. In the spirit of Emma
Goldman, the EGPP has extended its scholarly research to serve the
community-to educate the public about the complexity of engagement in
social and political transformation.
Email: emma@berkeley.edu
Web: http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/Goldman/
Keys: anarchism; feminism; free speech; history; women
[Contact data last verified 23 Oct 2016]
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Name: End of Suburbia
Text: A film on oil depletion and the collapse of the American dream.
Web: http://www.endofsuburbia.com/
Keys: film / video; peak oil; petroleum
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Name: Energy Justice Network
Text: The grassroots energy agenda, supporting communities threatened by
polluting energy and waste technologies. Taking direction from our
grassroots base and the Principles of Environmental Justice, we
advocate a clean energy, zero-emission, zero-waste future for all.
We aim to empower the grassroots through various tools including
community organizing support and advice, student organizing,
network-building, research on corporations, policies and technologies,
limited legal and technical guidance, and our mapping project.
Web: http://www.energyjustice.net/
Keys: directories; energy; environmental justice; nuclear energy; petroleum;
research materials
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Name: Energy Solidarity Cooperative (ESC)
Address: 55 Harrison, Suite 300
Oakland CA 94607
Text: An Oakland Based Community Solar Cooperative dedicated to creating
community power through renewable energy. We initiate and cultivate
clean community power projects through crowd-sourced investment and
collective ownership.
We democratize financing and ownership of renewable energy through
partnerships in traditionally disenfranchised communities.
We do so through a localized approach in cooperative governance and
community empowerment that combines member equity, community
investment and knowledge transfer services to spread community-led
clean power projects.
Web: http://energy-coop.com
Keys: cooperatives; renewable energy; solar energy
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Name: EnviroLink Network
Text: A grassroots online community that unites hundreds of organizations
and volunteers around the world with millions of people in more than
150 countries. EnviroLink is dedicated to providing comprehensive,
up-to-date environmental information and news.
At EnviroLink we're committed to promoting a sustainable society by
connecting individuals and organizations through communications
technologies. We recognize that our technologies are just tools, and
that the solutions to our ecological challenges lie within our
communities and their connection to the Earth itself.
Web: http://www.envirolink.org/
Keys: directories; ecology; news on-line
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Name: Environment and Human Health, Inc. (EHHI)
Text: A ten-member, science-based organization composed of physicians,
public health professionals, and policy experts dedicated to
protecting human health from environmental harms through research,
education and the promotion of sound public policy.
EHHI is not a membership organization and therefore all of its support
comes from foundations and committed individuals. EHHI does not
receive any funds from businesses or corporations.
EHHI's website receives over 180,000 visitors a month which enables
EHHI to reach people and governmental agencies all over the country
and the world. EHHI also maintains an eJournal that contains
up-to-date articles and studies that concern environment and human
health issues.
Web: http://ehhi.org/
Keys: environmental justice; health; policy; public health; research
materials; researchers; science
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Name: Environment California
Text: A statewide, citizen-based environmental advocacy organization. We
believe there’s something special about California — something worth
protecting and preserving for future generations. Whether it’s our
magnificent Pacific coastline, Yosemite’s “glitter of green and golden
wonder in a vast edifice of stone and space,” or our 278 state parks,
California’s natural wonders enrich our lives in countless ways.
Web: http://www.environmentcalifornia.org
Keys: ecology; lobbying; researchers
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Name: Environment News Service
Text: The Environment News Service is the original daily international wire
service of the environment. Established in 1990 by Editor in Chief
Sunny Lewis and Managing Editor Jim Crabtree, the company is
independently owned and operated under the direction of the founders.
With the belief that well-informed people are the best guarantee of
democracy, The Environment News Service exist to provide late-breaking
news of the environment from across the United States and around the
world.
With the conviction that ignorance is responsible for degradation of
Earth’s ecosystems and knowledge can result in planetary health, ENS
management and correspondents strive to provide news that is factual
and presented without bias.
Web: http://www.ens-news.com
Keys: ecology; news on-line
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Name: Environmental Forum of Marin
Address: POBox 151546
San Rafael CA 94915
Voice: (415) 484-8336
Text: Dedicated to the protection and enhancement of the environment by
educating its Members and the Marin citizenry about environmental
issues. In furtherance of this purpose, the goal of the Environmental
Forum is to conduct programs on environmental issues, provide
continuing education for its Members and the public, and influence
decision-making.
Web: http://www.marinefm.org/
Keys: classes / courses; ecology; education; Marin County
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Name: Environmental Health News (EHN)
Text: An independent, foundation-funded news organization that reports,
publishes and contextualizes news stories on environmental topics.
Articles by EHN journalists are published at EHN.org and provided to
newspapers and other media. EHN also offers a unique daily
contextualization of articles on environmental health topics published
in the world press.
Our editorial team of journalists and researchers reviews upwards of
200 news stories, opinions and editorials a day. We aim to connect
dots, putting events driving the day's news in a larger context for
our audience and sharing our perspective as reporters with
considerable expertise in the field.
Web: http://www.environmentalhealthnews.org/
Keys: environmental justice; health; news on-line; science
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Name: Environmental Justice Coalition for Water (EJCW)
Text: A statewide coalition of grassroots groups and intermediary
organizations building a collective, community-based movement for
democratic water allocation, management, and policy development in
California. EJCW empowers low-income communities and people of color
throughout California to advocate for clean, safe, and affordable
water for their communities.
We envision all communities throughout California having access to
safe and affordable water, clean rivers, streams, and bays for
personal, cultural, ceremonial, and recreational uses.
Web: http://www.ejcw.org/
Keys: coalitions; environmental justice; policy; water
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Name: Environmental Law Foundation (ELF)
Address: 1736 Franklin Street, 9th Floor
Oakland CA 94612
Voice: (510) 208-4555
Fax: (510) 208-4562
Text: Purpose is to improve environmental quality for those most at risk by
providing access to information, strategies, and enforcement of
environmental, toxics, and community right-to-know laws. ELF
complements the approach of other environmental law groups by
enforcing existing environmental regulations, providing a bridge of
direct service to people in need, and serving as the critical link
between at-risk communities and the legal, scientific, financial, and
other resources they need to effectively address environmental
problems.
Web: http://www.envirolaw.org
Keys: at-risk youth; environmental justice; legal services; right to know;
technical assistance; toxics
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Name: Environmental News Network (ENN)
Text: ENN has a serious editorial mission. Our mission is to inform,
educate, enable and create a platform for global environmental
action.
As a result, our readers are top environmental leaders from
government, business and educators, as well as a broad spectrum of
"intellectually curious" citizens.
While in the past we were mainly aggregators of environmental news,
ENN has become more than just a collection of content. It is rapidly
becoming a collection of resources, teachers, experts and tools that
provide objective information and knowledge about the increasingly
complex field of environmental science.
Web: http://www.enn.com/
Keys: ecology; news on-line; science
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Name: Environmental Protection Information Center (EPIC)
Address: 145 G Street, Suite A
Arcata CA 95521
Voice: (707) 822-7711
Fax: (707) 822-7712
Text: A community based, non-profit organization that advocates for
science-based protection and restoration of Northwest California’s
Forests. EPIC was founded in 1977 when local residents came together
to successfully end aerial applications of herbicides by industrial
logging companies in Humboldt County.
Email: epic@wildcalifornia.org
Web: http://www.wildcalifornia.org
Keys: corporations; deforestation; endangered species / habitat; Humboldt
County; litigation; watersheds
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Name: Environmental Volunteers
Address: 2560 Embarcadero Road
Palo Alto CA 94303
Voice: (650) 493-8000
Fax: (650) 644-0583
Text: Promotes the understanding of and responsibility for the environment
through hands-on science education. We train volunteers to teach
natural science in Santa Clara and San Mateo counties through:
SCHOOL PROGRAMS - Each year, our volunteers teach 10,000 children
through over 500 classroom programs and 125 field trips.
ECOCENTER - The EV’s headquarters is the EcoCenter, a public nature
center and education resource in the Palo Alto Baylands Nature
Preserve.
SCIENCE BY NATURE - Science By Nature is a collaboration program and
website administered by the EV, allowing educators to search and sign
up for local nature education programs from a list of collaborating
organizations.
Email: Info@EVols.org
Web: http://www.evols.org
Keys: children; ecology; education; science; volunteer matching
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Name: Environmental Working Group (California Office) (EWG CA)
Address: 2201 Broadway, Suite 308
Oakland CA 94612
Voice: (510) 444-0973
Text: Mission is to empower people to live healthier lives in a healthier
environment. With breakthrough research and education, we drive
consumer choice and civic action.
We are a non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to protecting
human health and the environment.
We work for you. Do you know what's in your tap water? What about
your shampoo? What’s lurking in the cleaners underneath your sink?
What pesticides are on your food? How about the farms, fracking wells
and factories in your local area? Do you know what safeguards they use
to protect your water, soil, air and your kids? Which large
agribusinesses get your tax dollars and why? What are GMOs? What do
they do to our land and water?
Web: http://www.ewg.org
Keys: analysis; ecology; Internet; pesticides; research materials;
researchers; technical assistance; writers
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Name: Environmentalists Against War (EAW)
Address: POBox 27
Berkeley CA 94701
Text: As organizations and individuals working for the environment and
environmental justice, we raised our voices in opposition to the US
war on Iraq and domestic attacks on immigrants and our civil
liberties. We are continuing to find new ways to save the planet by
working for peace and against militarism. We invite you to join us.
Through this web site we are disseminating information on the
disastrous human and environmental consequences of war and militarism.
Please share this information with your friends and colleagues.
Email: info@envirosagainstwar.org
Web: http://www.envirosagainstwar.org
Keys: coalitions; ecology; militarism; networking; news on-line
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Name: EnviroVideo
Text: Produces environmental and social justice programs for television -
including interview and news shows, specials, and documentaries. The
underlying premise of EnviroVideo is that there are critical
environmental issues at hand that can best be communicated to large
numbers of people through the media most favored for news and
information - television and now, onlne.
Web: http://envirovideo.com/
Keys: ecology; film / video; news; television
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Name: Episcopal Community Services (ECS)
Address: 165 8th Street, 3rd Floor
San Francisco CA 94103
Voice: (415) 487-3300
Fax: (415) 252-1743
Text: Provides essential services to homeless San Franciscans.
ECS utilizes a holistic approach that addresses the multiple causes leading to
homelessness. We serve more than 8,300 people a year, guided by our
mission to help homeless and very low-income people every day and
every night obtain the housing, jobs, shelter, and essential services
each person needs to prevent and end homelessness.
Web: http://www.ecs-sf.org
Keys: employment; homelessness; housing; low-income; services; shelters
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Name: Equal Justice Society (EJS)
Address: 1999 Harrison Street, Suite 800
Oakland CA 94612
Voice: (415) 288-8700
Fax: (510) 338-3030
Text: Transforming the nation’s consciousness on race through law, social
science, and the arts. Led by President Eva Paterson, our legal
strategy aims to broaden conceptions of present-day discrimination to
include unconscious and structural bias by using social science,
structural analysis, and real-life experience. Currently, EJS targets
its advocacy efforts on school discipline, special education, and the
school-to-prison pipeline, race-conscious remedies, and inequities in
the criminal justice system. The Oakland, Calif.-based nonprofit also
engages the arts and artists in creating work and performances that
allow wider audiences to understand social justice issues and
struggles.
Email: info@equaljusticesociety.org
Web: http://www.equaljusticesociety.org/
Keys: judiciation; law; legislation; policy; racism
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Name: Equal Rights Advocates (ERA)
Address: 1170 Market Street, Suite 700
San Francisco CA 94102
Voice: (415) 621-0672
Fax: (415) 621-6744
Text: A national civil rights organization dedicated to protecting and
expanding economic and educational access and opportunities for women
and girls.
Through its campaign approach—incorporating public education,
legislative advocacy, and litigation—ERA seeks to assist women and
girls throughout a life-long continuum: ensuring equality in their
educational experience, combating sex discrimination in the workforce,
and advocating for workplaces hospitable to working families.
Email: info@equalrights.org
Web: http://www.equalrights.org/
Keys: counseling; education; litigation; sexual harassment; women
[Contact data last verified 29 Oct 2017]
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Name: Equality Trust, The
Text: People in more equal societies live longer, have better mental health
and have better chances for a good education regardless of their
background. Community life is stronger where the income gap is
narrower, children do better at school and they are less likely to
become teenage parents. When inequality is reduced people trust each
other more, there is less violence and rates of imprisonment are
lower.
If we want to build a better society, it is essential we take action.
The Equality Trust is working with others to build a social movement
for change. We analyse and disseminate the latest research, promote
robust evidence-based arguments and support a dynamic network of
campaign groups across the country.
Web: http://www.equalitytrust.org.uk
Keys: distribution of wealth; health; incarceration; mental health;
research; violence
[Contact data last verified 21 Apr 2017]
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Name: eRideShare.com
Text: A free service for connecting carpoolers commuting locally as well as
longer-distance travelers going the same way. A good way to travel
inexpensively, and maybe even make a few friends.
Web: http://www.erideshare.com/
Keys: carpools; transportation; travel
[Contact data last verified 03 Nov 2014]
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Name: Ethical Traveler
Address: POBox 5883
Berkeley CA 94705
Voice: (510) 653-6911
Text: A project of the Earth Island Institute, Ethical Traveler is nonprofit
organization founded in 2003 to “Empower travelers to change the
world.” We offer a monthly news service, organize trips to
destinations of interest (e.g., Cuba and Morocco), and mount
news-based action campaigns that use the economic clout of the
international travel community to protect human rights and the
environment. Our signature project is "The World's Ten Best Ethical
Destinations," all drawn from the developing world, with winners
announced every December.
Email: info@ethicaltraveler.org
Web: http://ethicaltraveler.org
Keys: animal liberation; conservation; endangered species / habitat; human
rights; indigenous people; sexual minorities; tourism; travel; water
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Name: EveryOne Home
Address: 101 Callan Avenue, Suite 230
San Leandro CA 94577
Voice: (510) 473 8643
Text: Alameda County’s road map for ending homelessness. By emphasizing a
coordinated, efficient regional response to a regional problem, it
will make the best use of the county’s resources while building
capacity to attract funding from federal, state and philanthropic
sources. Together, we can and will end homelessness in Alameda
County.
EveryOne Home is the result of a unique collaboration among community
stakeholders, cities and Alameda County government agencies
representing three separate care systems — homeless services, public
health services and mental health services — that share overlapping
client populations.
Email: info@everyonehome.org
Web: http://everyonehome.org/
Keys: county government; homelessness; mental health; public health;
services
[Contact data last verified 28 Jun 2017]
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Name: Eviction Defense Collaborative
Address: 995 Market Street #1200
San Francisco CA 94103-1725
Voice: (415) 947 0797
Fax: (415) 947-0331
Text: Strives to prevent homelessness, preserve affordable housing, and
protect the diversity of San Francisco. We work toward these goals by
providing emergency rental assistance and by helping low-income
tenants gain equal access to the law in order to assert their rights
at court.
Web: http://www.evictiondefense.org
Keys: housing; services; tenant rights
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Name: Eviction Free San Francisco
Text: We are a direct action group whose mission is to help stop the wave of
evictions in San Francisco.
We use different kinds of creative action to hold accountable and to
confront real estate speculators and landlords that are displacing our
communities for profit.
Our meetings are organized on a mutual aid model and always with the
tenants of the buildings being threatened with eviction.
Web: http://evictionfreesf.org/
Keys: direct action; housing; tenant rights
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Name: Excelsior Family Connections
Address: 49 Ocean Avenue (between Persia and Brazil)
San Francisco CA 94112
Voice: (415) 333-3845
Text: Serves primarily low-income, immigrant working families and
individuals in community centers located in San Francisco’s Portola
and Excelsior neighborhoods. Our array of more than 30 interconnected,
participant-driven programs is designed to provide a comprehensive
continuum of care from early childhood education to grandparent
support groups and from family literacy to intensive case management.
Our goal is to support and empower parents and caregivers to develop
healthy families that will, in turn, create a thriving community in
which to raise children.
Email: info@excelsiorfc.org
Web: http://www.excelsiorfc.org
Keys: employment; family; services
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Name: Exhale
Address: 1714 Franklin Sreet #100-141
Oakland CA 94612
Voice: (510) 446-7900
Fax: (309) 410-1127
Text: The nation’s premiere organization addressing the emotional health and
wellbeing of women and men after abortion. Founded in 2000 by and for
women who have had abortions, we provide and promote emotional support
across a dynamic landscape of private and public spaces, online and
offline.
Email: info[@]exhaleprovoice[dot]org
Web: http://www.exhaleprovoice.org
Keys: abortion rights; counseling; healthcare access
[Contact data last verified 06 Nov 2015]
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Name: Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI)
Text: A global standard to promote the open and accountable management of
oil gas and mineral resources.
The Standard seeks to address the key governance issues of the oil,
gas and mining sectors.
The EITI Standard requires information along the extractive industry
value chain from the point of extraction, to how the revenue makes its
way through the government, to how it benefits the public.
Web: https://eiti.org
Keys: mining; petroleum
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Name: Face The World Foundation (FTW)
Text: A nonprofit educational and cultural exchange organization based in
the San Francisco Bay Area. Since 1980, FTW has promoted global
learning and exchange by offering opportunities for international high
school students to experience life in the U.S. The goal of cultural
exchange programs is to provide students, host families, schools, and
communities with a quality experience that will not only enhance
personal growth but also will establish lasting friendships.
Web: http://www.facetheworld.org/
Keys: family; multiculturalism; students; travel
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Name: FACES SF
Address: 1101 Masonic Avenue
San Francisco CA 94117
Voice: (415) 567-2357
Fax: (415) 355-9017
Text: FACES SF represents the legacy of two of San Francisco's longstanding
non-profits: Florence Crittenton Services and Whitney Young Child
Development Center. Combined, we share a history of more than 170
years of serving San Francisco's most vulnerable people. Our name has
changed, but our mission stays the same: Serving the Needs and
Well-Being of San Francisco’s Young Children; Empowering Families to
Become Self-Sufficient.
Web: http://www.facessf.org
Keys: childcare; children; counseling; employment; family; mentoring;
self-sufficiency; services
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Name: FactoryFarming.com
Text: The nation’s largest and most effective farm animal rescue and
protection organization. We have rescued thousands of animals and
cared for them at our sanctuaries in Watkins Glen, NY; Northern
California (Orland); and the Los Angeles area. At Farm Sanctuary,
these animals are our friends, not our food. We educate millions of
people about their plight and the effects of factory farming on our
health and environment. We advocate for laws and policies to prevent
suffering and promote compassion, and we reach out to legislators and
businesses to bring about institutional reforms.
Farm Sanctuary remains committed to ending cruelty to farm animals and
promoting compassionate vegan living through rescue, education, and
advocacy efforts.
Web: http://www.factoryfarming.com
Keys: agriculture; animal liberation; commodification; legislation; policy;
veganism / vegetarianism
[Contact data last verified 29 Oct 2017]
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Name: Fair Trade Federation (FTF)
Text: The trade association that strengthens and promotes North American
organizations fully committed to fair trade. The Federation is part of
the global fair trade movement, building equitable and sustainable
trading partnerships and creating opportunities to alleviate poverty.
The Federation envisions a just and sustainable global economic system
in which purchasing and production choices are made with concern for
the well-being of people and the environment, creating a world where
all people have viable economic options to meet their own needs. We
seek to alleviate poverty by continually and significantly expanding
the practice of trade that values the labor and dignity of all people.
Web: http://www.fairtradefederation.com/
Keys: agriculture; consumer lifestyle; fair trade; living wage; research
materials
[Contact data last verified 29 Oct 2017]
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Name: Fair Trade USA
Address: 1500 Broadway, Suite 400
Oakland CA 94612
Voice: (510) 663-5260
Fax: (510) 663-5264
Text: The leading third-party certifier of Fair Trade products in the United
States. We enable you, the consumer, to make a difference with your
dollar. We help people and the planet work in tandem so both are
healthy and sustained. We provide farmers in developing nations the
tools to thrive as international business people. Instead of creating
dependency on aid, we use a market-based approach that gives farmers
fair prices, workers safe conditions, and entire communities resources
for fair, healthy and sustainable lives. We seek to inspire the rise
of the Conscious Consumer and eliminate exploitation.
Web: http://www.fairtradeusa.org
Keys: consumer protection; fair trade; products
[Contact data last verified 18 Apr 2015]
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Name: Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting (FAIR)
Text: FAIR, the national media watch group, has been offering
well-documented criticism of media bias and censorship since 1986. We
work to invigorate the First Amendment by advocating for greater
diversity in the press and by scrutinizing media practices that
marginalize public interest, minority and dissenting viewpoints. As an
anti-censorship organization, we expose neglected news stories and
defend working journalists when they are muzzled. As a progressive
group, FAIR believes that structural reform is ultimately needed to
break up the dominant media conglomerates, establish independent
public broadcasting and promote strong non-profit sources of
information.
Web: http://www.fair.org
Keys: analysis; censorship; corporations; economics; First Amendment; media
criticism; watchdog groups
[Contact data last verified 23 Oct 2016]
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Name: Families Against Mandatory Minimums (FAMM)
Text: A nonprofit, nonpartisan organization fighting for smart sentencing
laws that protect public safety.
We see a country where criminal sentencing is individualized, humane,
and sufficient to impose fair punishment and protect public safety.
Our supporters include taxpayers, families, prisoners, law
enforcement, attorneys, judges, criminal justice experts and concerned
citizens.
Web: http://www.famm.org/
Keys: drugs; family; incarceration; law; mandatory minimum sentencing;
policy
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Name: Family & Children Services
Address: 375 Cambridge Avenue
Palo Alto CA 94306
Voice: (650) 326-6576
Text: Works to build strong, safe, and self-sufficient individuals,
families, and communities. To achieve this goal, we offer a range of
innovative, accessible, and integrated programs and services
addressing critical health and human services needs.
Web: http://www.fcservices.org/
Keys: children; counseling; drugs; family; literacy; mental health;
prevention; San Mateo County; Santa Clara County; self-sufficiency;
services; sexual minorities; violence; youth
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Name: Family Service Agency's Senior Peer Counseling Program (SPC)
Voice: (415) 386-6600 x218
Text: Serving the older adult community since 1998 and offers services
providing emotional support to older adults who are having difficulty
handling the uncertainties and dilemmas inherent in the aging
process.
Through their close relationship with peer clients, the Senior Peer
Counselors become an integral part of their clients’ lives and an
invaluable aid in coping with challenging transitions. They meet with
their clients individually or in various group settings. With time,
they become a significant adjunct to the professionals serving the
older adult community in San Francisco.
Web: http://www.fsasf-spc.org
Keys: counseling; seniors; services; support groups
[Contact data last verified 25 Apr 2015]
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Name: Family Support Services of the Bay Area (FSSBA)
Address: 401 Grand Avenue, Suites 200 and 500
Oakland CA 94610
Voice: (510) 834-4006
Fax: (510) 834-4010
Text: FSSBA’s services support families who face serious challenges in
successfully caring for their children. These include families with
children who have mental or physical disabilities; families taking
care of children who are substance exposed, medically fragile or are
HIV+; and families in which grandparents or other relatives have had
to step in to care for children. FSSBA also works with families in
which children are at risk of abuse or neglect to help parents improve
their parenting skills and ensure that these children are raised in
safe, healthy and nurturing environments.
Email: info@fssba-oak.org
Web: http://www.fssba-oak.org
Keys: childcare; disabilities; family; mentoring; services; youth
[Contact data last verified 30 Apr 2016]
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Name: Family Violence Law Center (FVLC)
Address: 470 27th Street
Oakland CA 94612
Voice: (510) 208-0220 (office)
(800) 947-8301 (24-hour crisis line)
Fax: (510) 208-3557
Text: Helps diverse communities in Alameda County heal from domestic
violence and sexual assault, advocating for justice and healthy
relationships. We provide survivor-centered legal and crisis
intervention services, offer prevention education for youth and other
community members, and engage in policy work to create systemic
change.
In court and in our community, every day.
Email: info@fvlc.org
Web: http://www.fvlc.org
Keys: domestic violence; legal services; prevention; support groups; youth
[Contact data last verified 13 Aug 2017]
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Name: Farm Sanctuary
Text: Combats the abuses of factory farming and encourage a new awareness
and understanding about farm animals. Today, Farm Sanctuary is the
nation’s largest and most effective farm animal rescue and protection
organization. We have rescued thousands of animals and cared for them
at our sanctuaries in New York and California. At Farm Sanctuary,
these animals are our friends, not our food. We educate millions of
people about their plight and the effects of factory farming on our
health and environment. We advocate for laws and policies to prevent
suffering and promote compassion, and we reach out to legislators and
businesses to bring about institutional reforms.
Web: http://www.farmsanctuary.org/
Keys: agriculture; animal liberation; animal shelters and adoption;
legislation; policy; veganism / vegetarianism
[Contact data last verified 12 May 2018]
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Name: Farmland LP
Address: One Ferry Building, Suite 255
San Francisco CA 94111
Voice: (415) 677-7055
Fax: (415) 634-3205
Text: A sustainable farmland investment company. We buy commodity farmland
and add value by securing organic certification, investing in
infrastructure, and increasing crop diversity. Our management
increases the land’s value and enhances the environment.
Web: http://www.farmlandlp.com
Keys: investment; land use; organic agriculture; science
[Contact data last verified 02 Feb 2018]
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Name: Fast Haul
Voice: (415) 665-0800
Text: A San Francisco junk hauling business that has been providing the San
Francisco Bay Area with inexpensive, professional trash hauling and
junk removal services for 15 years.
Fast haul has been supporting Green Charities such as the National
Resources Defense Council, the Rainforest Foundation, and Rainforest
Concern. We have been a fervent advocate of Green Hauling since 1993
and regularly donate to Good Will Industries, Salvation Army, local
homeless shelters, Habitat for Humanity, and Urban Ore.
Email: david@fasthaul.com
Web: http://www.fasthaul.com/
Keys: recycling; reuse; services; waste
[Contact data last verified 12 May 2018]
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Name: FEED Sonoma (Farmers Exchange of Earthly Delights)
Address: 6780 Depot Street, Suite 120
Sebastopol CA 95472
Voice: (707) 508-7702
Text: A micro-regional aggregator in Sebastopol, California. Our mission is
to create a vibrant, sustainable, and fair food system by maximizing
the ability of small farmers to sell their food through diverse
marketing channels.
Web: http://feedsonoma.com
Keys: agriculture; business; food; local food; Sonoma County; sustainability
[Contact data last verified 22 Jan 2018]
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Name: Fellowship for Intentional Community (FIC)
Text: Community is an essential building block in a cooperative and
sustainable world.
The Fellowship for Intentional Community (FIC) is a nonprofit
organization dedicated to supporting and promoting the development of
intentional communities and the evolution of cooperative culture.
Intentional communities are people living together with some shared
resources on the basis of explicit common values. Some examples
include ecovillages, cohousing, land trusts, income-sharing communes,
student co-ops, spiritual communities, and more.
Find communities in the Directory, read inspiration and lessons in
Communities magazine, and explore books, videos, and games in the
Community Bookstore.
Web: http://www.ic.org/
Keys: cohousing; cooperative living; directories; intentional communities;
land trusts; students
[Contact data last verified 05 May 2017]
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Name: Fellowship of Humanity (Humanist Hall)
Address: 411 28th Street
Oakland CA 94609-3602
Voice: (510) 451-5818 (Humanist Hall)
(510) 681-8699 (Fellowship of Humanity)
Text: We are a Humanist Church that has been functioning since 1935 as a
flagship for progressive causes. Today we are still a humanist,
anti-capitalist, left community surging ahead in the attempt to create
a compassionate, nurturing, non-competitive, simple, and stable
example of communitarian living for future generations. We are
attempting to discover how to build sustainability and excitement into
a conscious community for the left and left out living with the Earth.
Our user-friendly Humanist Hall is an affordable venue for progressive
political, cultural, and spiritual gatherings and for the celebrations
of oppressed minority cultures.
Street address is 390 27th Street (between Telegraph and Broadway in
midtown Oakland).
Email: HumanistHall[at]Gmail.com
Web: http://www.humanisthall.net
Keys: community-building; dance; humanism; spaces for events; spirituality;
sustainability
[Contact data last verified 21 Apr 2017]
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Name: Felton Institute (FSA)
Address: 1500 Franklin Street
San Francisco CA 94109
Voice: (415) 474-7310
Fax: (415) 931-3773
Text: Mission is to respond to human needs with cutting edge social services
and treatment that combine evidence-based practices with cultural
sensitivity and a deep respect for our clients.
We place special emphasis on the needs of low-income families,
children, the elderly and people living with disabilities.
San Francisco embodies diversity: cultural, economic, social, and
ethnic diversity. Felton Institute responds to the call by offering 34
programs in 11 languages at multiple sites throughout San Francisco
and the greater Bay Area.
Email: info@felton.org
Web: http://felton.org/
Keys: children; disabilities; family; low-income; seniors; services
[Contact data last verified 18 Apr 2015]
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Name: Feminist Majority Foundation (FMF)
Text: A cutting edge organization dedicated to women's equality,
reproductive health, and non-violence. In all spheres, FMF utilizes
research and action to empower women economically, socially, and
politically. Our organization believes that feminists - both women and
men, girls and boys - are the majority, but this majority must be
empowered.
Web: http://www.feminist.org/
Keys: calendars; feminism; news on-line; research materials
[Contact data last verified 21 Feb 2015]
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Name: Feminist Therapy Connection (FTC)
Voice: (510) 841-1261
Text: Experienced, California-licensed professionals providing
psychotherapy, counseling and consultation services in Berkeley,
Oakland, San Francisco and Vallejo, respecting the equal value,
ethnicity, cultural diversity and worth of all people. Whether you are
a woman, a man, or gender queer; whether you are heterosexual,
lesbian, gay, bi, or trans; whether you are seeking help for personal,
sexuality, relationship, family, or workplace problems, we listen
carefully while providing a safe place to explore and heal present and
past trauma, anxiety, depression and stress. In addition to
individual, couple and family therapy, we offer an Anger &
Assertiveness Group for Women in Berkeley.
Email: FeministTherapy@mail2Woman.com
Web: http://www.FeministTherapy.org
Keys: consultants; counseling; family; feminism; mental health;
psychotherapy; relationships; services; sex; sexual minorities; women
[Contact data last verified 03 Feb 2017]
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Name: Fenton Communications (San Francisco office)
Address: 182 Second Street, Fourth Floor
San Francisco CA 94105
Voice: (415) 901-0111
Fax: (415) 901-0110
Text: A social change communications agency that uses the power of stories,
media and technology to make the world a better place.
Web: http://www.fenton.com
Keys: advertising; communications; media; public relations; services
[Contact data last verified 06 Nov 2015]
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Name: Filipino Advocates for Justice (FAJ)
Address: 310 8th Street, Suite 309
Oakland CA 94607
Voice: (510) 465-9876
Text: Mission is to build a strong and empowered Filipino community by
organizing constituents, developing leaders, providing services, and
advocating for policies that promote social and economic justice and
equity.
FAJ’s work is guided by its vision for an empowered Filipino community
with the power to advance social and economic justice, and realize
democratic and human rights for everyone. Its programs are rooted in
Bayanihan principles, a Filipino demonstration of social justice
values where a community comes together to help those in need.
Web: http://www.filipinos4justice.org
Keys: affirmative action; economic justice; human rights; Philippines /
Filipinos; policy; services
[Contact data last verified 12 May 2018]
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Name: Filipino American Coalition for Environmental Solidarity (FACES)
Address: POBox 566
Berkeley CA 94701
Text: An intergenerational organization that works for environmental justice
within communities in the United States and in the Philippines, and
builds partnerships through advocacy, education, service, and
organizing. FACES’ seeks to address transnational environmental
justice issues that impact Filipino communities in both the United
States and the Philippines, while remaining grounded in the personal
stories, lives, and struggles of those affected worldwide.
Email: facesinfo@gmail.com
Web: http://www.facessolidarity.org/
Keys: coalitions; conservation; environmental justice; interconnectedness;
Philippines / Filipinos; toxics
[Contact data last verified 02 Feb 2018]
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Name: Fiore, Mark
Text: Pulitzer Prize-winner, Mark Fiore, who the Wall Street Journal has
called “the undisputed guru of the form,” creates cartoons in San
Francisco, one of the most fertile regions for creating observational
and satirical cartoons. His work has appeared on the San Francisco
Chronicle’s website, Newsweek.com, Slate.com, CBSNews.com,
MotherJones.com, NPR’s web site and is currently being featured by
KQED. Fiore’s political animation has appeared on CNN, Frontline,
Bill Moyers Journal, Salon.com and cable and broadcast outlets across
the globe.
Web: http://www.markfiore.com/
Keys: cartoonists; comics; editorial comment; humor
[Contact data last verified 12 May 2018]
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Name: Fire John Yoo
Web: http://www.firejohnyoo.org/
Keys: blogs; lawyers; policy; torture
[Contact data last verified 24 Jul 2016]
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Name: FireWorks
Text: A Bay Area anarchist newspaper that aims to cultivate revolutionary
solidarity and communication in the Bay among full-fledged rebels,
closet antagonists, old-school revolutionaries and budding insurgents.
What you will find in these pages is a concoction of the efforts and
contributions of a broad array of radicals in the Bay Area. It is
directed at anyone who opposes capitalism, white supremacy, and
patriarchy. We aim to create a forum in which people can continue to
strengthen their affinities with each other, as well as their
hostilities towards a system that has exploited and dominated every
aspect of their lives.
Web: http://fireworksbayarea.com/
Keys: anarchism; editorial comment; news on-line
[Contact data last verified 16 Feb 2017]
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Name: First Amendment Project (FAP)
Address: 1736 Franklin, 9th Floor (near 19th Street)
Oakland CA 94612
Voice: (510) 208-7744
Fax: (510) 208-4562
Text: A nonprofit organization providing free and low-cost legal services on
public interest free speech and free press matters. FAP provides these
services to its core constituency of activists, journalists and
artists who seek to vindicate important First Amendment rights, but do
not have the financial resources to hire private counsel. FAP
represents these clients by defending them when they are sued for what
they say or write, by contesting governmental non-compliance with open
records and meetings laws and in challenging laws, practices and
policies that infringe on First Amendment rights. FAP is the only
nonprofit organization in the country dedicated to providing free
legal representation exclusively on free speech and free press issues.
Web: http://www.thefirstamendment.org
Keys: art; First Amendment; freedom of information; journalism; lawyers;
legal services; petitions
[Contact data last verified 19 Jul 2015]
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Name: First Community Housing (FCH)
Address: 75 East Santa Clara Street, Suite 1300
San Jose CA 95113
Voice: (408) 291-8650
Fax: (408) 993-9098
Text: We design, develop and manage affordable housing for low-income
households. Each of our developments is specifically designed to
complement its unique neighborhood. The purpose of this website is to
introduce you to a few of our properties and to highlight our
commitment to quality design and long term sustainability.
FCH is an award-winning, California 501(c)(3) Nonprofit, Public
Benefit Housing Development Corporation, located in San Jose,
California. Since 1986, FCH has created housing for more than 3,200
low-income residents in 18 affordable rental housing developments
(over 1,300 units) throughout the San Francisco Bay region.
Email: info@firsthousing.org
Web: http://www.firsthousing.org/
Keys: architecture; building materials; development; housing; low-income;
Santa Clara County; services; sustainability; transportation
[Contact data last verified 23 Oct 2016]
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Name: First Congregational Church of San Francisco (FCC)
Address: 1300 Polk Street
San Francisco CA 94109
Voice: (415) 441-8901
Text: A gathering of diverse people who have come together to support one
another on life’s journey. We are spiritually and socially diverse,
accepting of differences and open minded. We are single and married,
straight and gay, gender fluid and not, come in different colors and
ages.
We have a vision of our life together:
to grow spiritually & support others in their spiritual life.
to practice a life of gratitude and service.
to bear witness to the loving and inclusive character of God
through the person of Jesus.
to give voice to Christ’s transformative message of justice,
hospitality, peace & compassion.
Email: office@sanfranciscoucc.org
Web: http://www.SanFranciscoUCC.org
Keys: justice; religion; sexual minorities
[Contact data last verified 21 Apr 2017]
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Name: First Run Features
Text: Founded in 1979 by a group of filmmakers to advance the distribution
of independent film. Under the leadership of the late film pioneer,
Fran Spielman, First Run Features quickly gained a reputation for its
controversial catalog of daring documentaries and fiction films. Today
First Run remains one of the largest independent distributors in North
America, releasing between 15-20 films a year in theaters nationwide
and an additional 30-40 films annually to schools, libraries and other
educational institutions; on home video on DVD and Blu-Ray; to
television broadcasters; and online through a diverse group of
innovative digital partners.
Web: http://www.firstrunfeatures.com/
Keys: film / video; products
[Contact data last verified 29 Oct 2017]
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Name: First They Came for the Homeless
Voice: (415) 304-1449
Text: Our group is about humanity, community, and coming up with solutions
for what we face. Our current campaigns are the year long occupation
of the Berkeley Post Office, the Wiener Roasts, several upcoming Sit
lie actions in San Francisco, and the proposed occupation of the
mayors super bowl party.
Email: mzint02@gmail.com
Web: http://Firsttheycameforthehomeless.weebly.com/
https://www.facebook.com/firsttheycameforthehomeless/
http://www.berkeleyemergencyshelter.org/
Keys: direct action; homelessness
[Contact data last verified 26 Oct 2016]
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Name: Fleet Farming Oakland
Text: Strives to reduce the environmental impact of food production through
a pedal-powered, hyperlocal urban farming model that creates a culture
of health and vibrant ecosystems by: teaching an intergenerational
fleet of volunteers how to grow their own food, activating and
re-engaging the community through biweekly Swarm Rides, and creating a
breathe free and biodiverse environment through emissions-free,
organic farming.
Web: http://fleetfarming.com/
https://www.facebook.com/fleetfarmingoak
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Name: FOCUS on the Global South (FOCUS)
Text: Challenges neoliberalism, militarism and corporate-driven
globalisation while strengthening just and equitable alternatives. We
work in solidarity with the Global South - the great majority of
humanity that is marginalized and dispossessed by globalisation –
believing that progressive social change and Global South solidarity
are imperative if the needs and aspirations of oppressed peoples,
particularly in Asia, Latin America and Africa, are to be met.
We have used many different approaches including research and
analytical writing, debates, seminars and conferences, education and
study programs, network building, international solidarity and
fact-finding missions, direct action and parliamentary testimonials,
social forums, joint campaigns and media.
Web: http://www.focusweb.org
Keys: analysis; Asia; development; distribution of wealth; policy; research;
Thailand
[Contact data last verified 29 Oct 2017]
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Name: Food & Water Watch (Oakland office)
Address: 1814 Franklin Street, Suite 1100
Oakland CA 94612
Voice: (510) 922-0720
Fax: (510) 922-0723
Text: Champions healthy food and clean water for all. We stand up to
corporations that put profits before people, and advocate for a
democracy that improves people’s lives and protects our environment.
We are working to create a healthy future for our families and for
generations to come—a world where all people have the resources they
need, including wholesome food, clean water and sustainable energy.
Making this happen requires organizing people from all over the
country to build a large movement with the political power to make our
democratic process work. Large numbers of people are a countervailing
force to corporations “buying” public policy.
Web: http://www.foodandwaterwatch.org/
Keys: corporations; food; lobbying; local food; policy; privatization;
researchers; sustainability; watchdog groups; water
[Contact data last verified 14 Jan 2017]
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Name: Food Bank of Contra Costa and Solano
Address: POBox 6324
Concord CA 94524
Voice: (855) 309-FOOD (3663) toll-free
Text: Stores and distributes donated and purchased perishable and
nonperishable food items. We distribute food directly to low-income
people at community sites and make food available for other nonprofit
organizations serving the ill, needy and children. The Food Bank works
to reduce food waste, feed hungry people and raise public awareness of
issues related to food and hunger.
Email: info@foodbankccs.org
Web: http://www.foodbankccs.org/
Keys: Contra Costa County; food banks; hunger; Solano County
[Contact data last verified 14 May 2016]
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Name: Food Chain Workers Alliance
Text: A coalition of worker-based organizations whose members plant,
harvest, process, pack, transport, prepare, serve, and sell food,
organizing to improve wages and working conditions for all workers
along the food chain.
The Alliance was founded in July 2009.
Web: http://foodchainworkers.org
Keys: agriculture; coalitions; food; labor
[Contact data last verified 05 Nov 2016]
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Name: Food Democracy Now!
Text: A grassroots community dedicated to building a sustainable food system
that protects our natural environment, sustains farmers and nourishes
families.
Our food system is fundamentally broken. A few companies dominate the
market, prioritizing profits over people and our planet. Government
policies put the interests of corporate agribusiness over the
livelihoods of farm families. Farm workers toil in unsafe conditions
for minimal wages. School children lack access to healthy foods--as do
millions of Americans living in poverty. From rising childhood and
adult obesity to issues of food safety, air and water pollution,
worker's rights and global warming, our current food system is leading
our nation to an unsustainable future.
Web: http://fooddemocracynow.org/
Keys: agriculture; corporations; democracy; food; labor; policy
[Contact data last verified 29 Oct 2017]
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Name: Food First / Institute for Food and Development Policy
Address: 398 60th Street
Oakland CA 94618-1212
Voice: (510) 654-4400
Text: Envisions a world in which all people have access to healthy,
ecologically produced, and culturally appropriate food. After 40 years
of analysis of the global food system, we know that making this vision
a reality involves more than technical solutions—it requires political
transformation. That’s why Food First supports activists, social
movements, alliances, and coalitions working for systemic change. Our
work—including action-oriented research, publications, projects and
Food Sovereignty Tours—gives you the tools to understand the global
challenges, build your local movement, and engage with the global
movement for food sovereignty.
Email: info@foodfirst.org
Web: http://www.foodfirst.org
Keys: agriculture; calendars; democracy; development; distribution of
wealth; ecology; food; hunger; policy
[Contact data last verified 25 Apr 2015]
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Name: Food Not Bombs, East Bay (FNB)
Text: Prepares and serves free, hot, vegetarian food to hungry people mostly
at People's Park in Berkeley. FNB is part of the community they
serve. They survive on direct food donations from local bakeries,
produce outlets, and restaurants, without government or charity money.
Always seeking new volunteers to help cook, clean, serve, and be a
part of the community. Meetings are the first Wednesday night of each
month at the Long Haul at 7:30 pm.
Web: http://ebfnb.org/
Keys: direct action; food; homelessness; hunger; militarism; services;
veganism / vegetarianism
[Contact data last verified 26 Mar 2015]
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Name: Food Not Bombs, San Francisco (FNB)
Voice: (415) 484-3288
Text: A non-violent, direct action group that provides free, hot vegetarian
community meals in San Francisco. Get involved in their
consensus-based, grassroots organizing by calling, sending email, and
/ or coming to one of their cook houses or servings . Check their web
site for current serving locations and times.
Email: sffnbvolunteers@riseup.net
Web: http://www.sffnb.org/
Keys: demonstrations; distribution of wealth; do-it-yourself; economic
justice; food; free speech; human rights; logistics; noncorporate
economy; nonviolence; peace; poverty; self-help; self-reliance;
services; veganism / vegetarianism
[Contact data last verified 13 Aug 2017]
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Name: Food Not Lawns
Text: Food Not Lawns was founded in 1999 by a group of Food Not Bombs
activists in Eugene, Oregon. In 2006, a co-founder of the group,
Heather Jo Flores, published her book, Food Not Lawns, How to Turn
your Yard into a Garden and Your Neighborhood into a Community. Now,
with over 50 chapters worldwide, we are a global community of avant
gardeners, working together to grow and share food, seeds, skills and
resources.
Web: http://www.foodnotlawns.com/
Keys: books; food; gardening; land use; local food; seeds
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Name: Food Pantry, The
Address: 500 De Haro Street (at Mariposa)
San Francisco CA 94107
Text: Mission is to increase access to food for hungry people, and empower
them to help each other. We operate out of St. Gregory of Nyssa
Episcopal Church in San Francisco.
Email: sara@thefoodpantry.org
Web: http://www.thefoodpantry.org
Keys: food; homelessness; services
[Contact data last verified 13 Aug 2017]
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Name: Food Runners
Voice: (415) 929-1866
Text: Mission is to help alleviate hunger in San Francisco, to help prevent
waste and to help create community. Food Runners is currently
delivering over 16 tons of food a week that would otherwise be thrown
away. With help from our volunteer coordinator, our paid truck driver
and people like you, we can provide enough food for 5,000 meals a day
in San Francisco.
Email: nancy@foodrunners.org
Web: http://www.foodrunners.org/
Keys: business; delivery; food; hunger; nutrition; shelters
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Name: Food, Inc.
Text: In Food, Inc., filmmaker Robert Kenner lifts the veil on our nation's
food industry, exposing the highly mechanized underbelly that has been
hidden from the American consumer with the consent of our government's
regulatory agencies, USDA and FDA. Our nation's food supply is now
controlled by a handful of corporations that often put profit ahead of
consumer health, the livelihood of the American farmer, the safety of
workers and our own environment. We are riddled with widespread
obesity, particularly among children, and an epidemic level of
diabetes among adults.
Web: http://www.foodincmovie.com/
Keys: agriculture; consumer protection; corporations; film / video; food;
health; labor
[Contact data last verified 21 Apr 2017]
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Name: FoodCorps
Text: A nationwide team of AmeriCorps leaders who connect kids to real food
and help them grow up healthy. Through our partnership with
AmeriCorps, we recruit, train and place emerging leaders into
limited-resource schools for a year of service implementing our
three-ingredient recipe for healthy kids. Our Service Members:
Teach hands-on lessons about food and nutrition
Build and tend school gardens and teach cooking lessons so kids can
taste the fresh food they’ve grown
Change what’s on children’s lunch trays, giving them healthy food from
local farms.
Web: https://foodcorps.org/
Keys: children; food; gardening; leadership development; nutrition; public
education
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Name: Forage Oakland
Text: A project that - at its core - works to address how we eat everyday,
and how everyone can benefit from viewing their neighborhood as a
veritable edible map, considering what is cultivated in any given
neighborhood and why, and what histories influence those choices. The
gleaning of unharvested fruits; the meeting of new neighbors; the joy
of the season's first hachiya persimmon (straight from your neighbor's
backyard, no less); the gathering and redistribution of fruits that
would otherwise be wasted - can be powerful and can work to create a
new paradigm around how we presently think about food in our
collective consciousness.
Web: https://forageoakland.wordpress.com/
Keys: barter; local food; neighborhoods
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Name: Foreign Policy In Focus (FPIF)
Text: A “Think Tank Without Walls” connecting the research and action of
more than 600 scholars, advocates, and activists seeking to make the
United States a more responsible global partner. It is a project of
the Institute for Policy Studies.
FPIF provides timely analysis of U.S. foreign policy and international
affairs and recommends policy alternatives. We believe U.S. security
and world stability are best advanced through a commitment to peace,
justice, and environmental protection, as well as economic, political,
and social rights. We advocate that diplomatic solutions, global
cooperation, and grassroots participation guide foreign policy.
Web: http://www.fpif.org
Keys: foreign policy; militarism; networking; policy; think tanks
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Name: ForestEthics
Address: One Haight Street
San Francisco CA 94102
Voice: (415) 863-4563
Text: If you want to save the world, forests are a great place to start. And
if you want to find one of the best organizations for the job, you’re
in the right place. ForestEthics' strategies are always a step ahead,
and our results speak for themselves: we’ve secured protection
agreements for 65 million acres of forests; we’ve helped to move
millions of dollars of corporate buying towards environmentally
responsible market solutions and we’ve influenced the environmental
practices of more than 100 major US companies. We’ve achieved this
tremendous success in the US and Canada with the support of people
like you.
Email: info@forestethics.org
Web: http://www.forestethics.org
Keys: corporations; deforestation
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Name: Forests Forever (FoFo)
Address: 1936 University Avenue, Suite 160
Berkeley CA 94704
Voice: (415) 974-3636 (974-FOFO)
Text: Mission is to protect and enhance the forests and wildlife habitat of
California through educational, legislative, and electoral
activities.
Founded in 1989 during the historic campaign to save the Headwaters
ancient redwood forest in Humboldt County, California. Although we
didn’t get all the forest saved, 7500 acres including several large
virgin groves were eventually acquired and can be visited today. Our
efforts helped galvanize the broad-based public awareness and outcry
that led to this and many other forest victories across the state.
We rally Californians in defense of the state’s 17 million acres of
woodland ecosystems and watersheds. We accomplish this through
year-round education, grassroots organizing, litigation, work in
elections, and executive-branch and legislative advocacy.
Email: mail@forestsforever.org
Web: http://www.forestsforever.org
Keys: deforestation; elections; endangered species / habitat; legislation;
networking; petitions; wilderness
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Name: Forfeiture Endangers American Rights Foundation (FEAR)
Address: 20 Sunnyside Suite A-419
Mill Valley CA 94941
Text: A national nonprofit organization dedicated to reform of federal and
state asset forfeiture laws to restore due process and protect
property rights in the forfeiture process.
Web: http://www.fear.org
Keys: civil liberties; drugs; finance; law
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Name: Foundation Aiding The Elderly (FATE)
Text: Objective is to serve as a voice for patients and to bring about
national reforms and enforcement of the laws governing the nursing
home industry and its regulatory agencies in order to assure proper
care, civil rights and meaningful, dignified life for the elderly in
long-term care facilities.
Web: http://www.4fate.org/
Keys: civil rights; healthcare access; law; long-term care; nursing homes;
seniors
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Name: Foundation Center, The
Text: The leading source of information about philanthropy worldwide.
Through data, analysis, and training, it connects people who want to
change the world to the resources they need to succeed. Foundation
Center maintains the most comprehensive database on U.S. and,
increasingly, global grantmakers and their grants — a robust,
accessible knowledge bank for the sector. It also operates research,
education, and training programs designed to advance knowledge of
philanthropy at every level.
Web: http://fdncenter.org/
Keys: directories; grants / financial aid
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Name: Foundation for a College Education (FCE)
Address: POBox 50518
Palo Alto CA 94303
Voice: (650) 322-5048
Fax: (650) 327-9977
Text: Since 1995, FCE has worked to increase the number of students of color
from East Palo Alto and the surrounding area who graduate from a
four-year college or university. FCE has created a community where
higher education is attainable. By engaging both students and parents
in intensive, personalized programs starting in high school, FCE
provides the information, the resources, and the encouragement
students need to succeed in college and beyond.
Email: info@collegefoundation.org
Web: http://www.collegefoundation.org
Keys: education; people of color; Santa Clara County; students
[Contact data last verified 29 Oct 2017]
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Name: Foundation for Deep Ecology (FDE)
Address: 1606 Union Street
San Francisco CA 94123
Voice: (415) 229-9339
Fax: (415) 229-9340
Text: Supports efforts to protect wilderness and wildlife, promote
ecological agriculture, and oppose destructive mega-technologies that
are accelerating the extinction crisis.
Email: info@deepecology.org
Web: http://www.deepecology.org
Keys: agriculture; books; deforestation; ecology; land use
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Name: Foundation for International Community Assistance (FINCA)
Text: A global, nonprofit financial institution serving 1.7 million
lowest-income clients in 22 countries, providing products and services
aimed at creating employment, raising family incomes and reducing
poverty.
Works to ensure that people with low incomes, who are financially
excluded from accessing banking services within their traditional
markets, can access the suitable loans, savings and insurance they
need to build secure, productive lives.
Web: http://www.villagebanking.org/
Keys: microenterprise; poverty
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Name: Foundation for Sustainable Development (FSD)
Address: POBox 21467
Oakland CA 94620
Voice: (415) 283-4873
Text: Achieves community-driven goals through asset-based development and
international exchange in Africa, Asia, and Latin America.
Community is central to our approach. FSD connects a diverse,
international community to work effectively together to achieve
lasting improvement in the quality of life for all.
Email: info@fsdinternational.org
Web: http://www.fsdinternational.org/
Keys: developing world; development; sustainability
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Name: Foundation for Taxpayer & Consumer Rights (FTCR)
Text: A nonprofit organization dedicated to providing an effective voice for
taxpayers and consumers in an era when special interests dominate
public discourse, government and politics. We deploy an in-house team
of public interest lawyers, policy experts, strategists, and
grassroots activists to expose, confront, and change corporate and
political injustice every day, saving Americans billions of dollars
and improving countless lives.
Web: http://www.consumerwatchdog.org
Keys: consumer protection; corporations; government; lawyers; policy; taxes;
watchdog groups
[Contact data last verified 03 Nov 2014]
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Name: Fred Finch Youth Center (FFYC)
Address: 3800 Coolidge Avenue
Oakland CA 94602-3311
Text: Provides innovative, effective, caring mental health and social
services to children, young adults, and their families that allows
them to build on their strengths, overcome challenges, and live
healthy and productive lives.
We serve children, adolescents, young adults, and families facing
complex life challenges. Many have experienced trauma and abuse; live
at or below the poverty line; have been institutionalized or
incarcerated; have a family member that has been involved in the
criminal justice system; have a history of substance abuse; or have
experienced discrimination or stigma.
Web: http://www.fredfinch.org
Keys: classes / courses; counseling; disabilities; homelessness; services;
therapy; youth
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Name: Free Expression Policy Project (FEPP)
Text: Provides research and advocacy on free speech, copyright, and media
democracy issues.
FEPP's primary areas of inquiry are:
r Restrictions on publicly funded expression - in libraries,
museums, schools, universities, and arts and humanities agencies;
r Internet filters, rating systems, and other measures that
restrict access to information and ideas in the digital age;
r Restrictive copyright laws, digital rights management, and other
imbalances in the intellectual property system;
r Mass media consolidation, public access to the airwaves, and
other issues of media democracy;
r Censorship designed to shield adolescents and children from
controversial art, information, and ideas.
Web: http://fepproject.org/
Keys: copyright; free speech; media criticism; policy; researchers
[Contact data last verified 19 Jul 2015]
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Name: Free Farm Stand
Text: An all-volunteer run project of the No Penny Opera that is about
sharing the wealth of urban farms and gardens.
We strive to attain the following goals:
•help make locally grown, fresh and nutritious organic produce
accessible to all, especially those families and individuals on
low-incomes and tight budgets.
•help empower people who have the space to grow their own food and
become more self-reliant.
•promote good nutrition and health.
Web: http://freefarmstand.org
Keys: blogs; local food; neighborhoods; nutrition; organic agriculture;
self-reliance; services
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Name: Free Press
Text: Fights for your rights to connect and communicate.
We're working to create a world where people have the information and
opportunities they need to tell their own stories, hold leaders
accountable, and participate in our democracy. We fight to save the
free and open Internet, curb runaway media consolidation, protect
press freedom, and ensure diverse voices are represented in our media.
Web: http://www.freepress.net/
Keys: democracy; media; media criticism; policy
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Name: Free Radio Berkeley (FRB)
Address: 1442-A Walnut Street
Berkeley CA 94709
Voice: (510) 595-7609
Text: Founded on April 11, 1993 as a Free Speech voice challenging the
regulatory structure and power of the Federal Communications
Commission (FCC), Free Radio Berkeley has been engaged in an ongoing
legal battle with the FCC. Until it was silenced by a court injunction
in June 1998, Free Radio Berkeley was broadcasting 24 hours a day, 7
days a week at 104.1 FM with 50 watts of power as the alternative
voice for the greater Berkeley/Oakland area. The original Free Speech
mission to provide community news, discussions and interviews,
information, a wide range of music, and more has now been taken up by
Berkeley Liberation Radio.
Email: freeradioberkeley@gmail.com
Web: http://www.freeradio.org
Keys: anarchism; First Amendment; free speech; microbroadcasting; technical
assistance
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Name: Free Radio Santa Cruz (FRSC 101.3 FM)
Address: POBox 7811
Santa Cruz CA 95061
Voice: (831) 427-3772 (studio line)
Text: On the air since 1995 without a license. We broadcast 24 hours a day,
7 days a week, 365 days a year, in defiance of federal regulations.
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is charged with regulating
the airwaves in the public interest. We believe that it has failed to
do so and has proved itself to be controlled by monied interests.
We go on the air to protest corporate control of the airwaves, to
bring local control and local accountability to our community media,
to produce and broadcast a diversity of programs that are simply
unavailable on corporate controlled stations. We do not air
advertisements, we do not do pledge drives, we do not have sponsors or
underwriters.
Email: frsc@freakradio.org
Web: http://www.freakradio.org
Keys: media criticism; microbroadcasting; noncorporate economy; Santa Cruz
County
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Name: Free Speech Internet Television
Text: A national, independent news network committed to advancing
progressive social change. As the alternative to television networks
owned by billionaires, governments and corporations, our network
amplifies underrepresented voices and those working on the front lines
of social, economic and environmental justice.
Reaching over 40 million US television households, we bring our
viewers an array of daily news programs, independent documentaries and
special events coverage.
Web: http://www.freespeech.org/
Keys: free speech; Internet; television
[Contact data last verified 19 Jul 2015]
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Name: Free the Slaves
Text: Slavery has been outlawed everywhere, but it has not been eradicated.
Free the Slaves exists to help finish the work that earlier
generations of abolitionists started.
We help those in slavery escape the brutality of bondage. We help
prevent others from becoming trapped by traffickers. We help officials
bring slave holders to justice. We help survivors restore their
dignity, rebuild their lives, and reclaim the future for themselves,
their families, and their communities.
Web: http://www.freetheslaves.net
Keys: slavery
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Name: Free Tibet Campaign
Text: Our vision is a free Tibet in which Tibetans are able to determine
their own future and the human rights of all are respected.
We campaign for an end to China's occupation of Tibet and for
international recognition of Tibetans' right to freedom.
We mobilise active support for the Tibetan cause, champion human
rights and challenge those whose actions sustain the occupation.
We are entirely funded by our supporters across the world.
Web: http://www.freetibet.org/
Keys: China; Great Britain; human rights; military occupation; Tibet
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Name: Freecycle Network
Text: Aims to keep items out of landfills by providing an internet listings
service to help people give unwanted items to someone else for free.
Keeping stuff out of landfills helps build a sustainable future, is
good for the environment and builds local and world communities.
Freecycle (officially known as The Freecycle Network) is made up of
thousands of groups with millions of members across the globe. It's a
grassroots and entirely nonprofit movement of people who are giving
and getting stuff for free. Freecycle groups operate in specific towns
or areas - so it's local as well as global.
Web: http://www.freecycle.org/
Keys: networking; recycling; reuse; waste
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Name: FreeDocumentaries.org
Text: Streams full-length documentary films free of charge, with no
registration needed. For several films, we even offer the ability to
watch trailers or to download the actual film.
The films are gathered by our researchers as we scour the web for
well-produced videos and present them to our viewers. We adhere to all
copyright laws and honor the wishes of the producers.
Web: http://www.freedocumentaries.org
Keys: film / video; Internet
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Name: Freedom Archives, The
Address: 522 Valencia Street
San Francisco CA 94110
Voice: (415) 863-9977
Text: A non-profit educational archive located in San Francisco dedicated to
the preservation and dissemination of historical audio, video and
print materials documenting progressive movements and culture from the
1960s to the 1990s. Offering a youth development program focused on
engagement with these historical materials and providing media
production training, we also produce original documentaries and
educational resources for use by schools and organizations as tools
for community building and social justice work.
Email: info[at]freedomarchives[dot]org
Web: https://freedomarchives.org/
Keys: archiving; history; radio
[Contact data last verified 05 Nov 2017]
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Name: Freedom from Hunger
Address: 1460 Drew Avenue, Suite 300
Davis CA 95618
Voice: (800) 708-2555
(530) 758-6200
Text: Brings innovative and sustainable self-help solutions to the fight
against chronic hunger and poverty. Together with local partners, we
equip families with resources they need to build futures of health,
hope and dignity.
Email: info@freedomfromhunger.org
Web: http://www.freedomfromhunger.org
Keys: development; food security; microenterprise; poverty; self-help;
services
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Name: Freedom Socialist Party (FSP)
Text: A working class organization composed of women and men of many races,
nationalities, sexual orientations and ages who are fighting for a
new, just social order that will serve the majority of the human race.
In a time of environmental and economic crisis, perpetual war, high
unemployment, immigrant scapegoating and rampant corporate theft, we
reject despair and work collectively for a future cleansed of all
oppression and violence. We agree with the advice offered by Eduardo
Galeano, the Uruguayan socialist who wrote Open Veins of Latin
America: “Save your pessimism for better times."
Web: http://www.socialism.com/
Keys: democracy; feminism; racism; sexual minorities; socialism
[Contact data last verified 14 Jan 2017]
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Name: Freedom to Marry
Text: Documents the stunning celebration which began on February 12th, 2004
in the city of San Francisco when new, straight, married Mayor Gavin
Newsom felt compelled to recognize the rights of same-sex couples to
be treated equally. Included in the film are passionate comments by
comedian Margaret Cho. This courageous act of compassion has caused an
explosion of emotion on both sides and if you were not fortunate
enough to be in San Francisco for this, don't miss this chance to
experience one of the most important events in the historic fight for
civil rights for gays and lesbians everywhere!
Web: http://www.freedomtomarry.tv/
Keys: civil disobedience; film / video; law; marriage rights; sexual
minorities
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Name: Fresh Juice Party (FJP)
Text: We are politically conscious and active artists who write, record and
perform music, design visuals and create happenings. Partners for over
20 years, the songwriting duo Craig Casey & Pratibha Gautam are the
backbone of this sprawling musical, artistic and political juggernaut.
FJP is NOT yo’ momma’s protest music! Defying easy categorization,
their infectious and catchy songs range from pop, reggae, acoustic,
gospel, and hard rock. FJP plays a large collection of wildly
danceable original tunes full of punch…er, we mean: juice!
Web: http://www.freshjuiceparty.com
Keys: media; music
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Name: Friends of Alemany Farm
Address: 162 Hearst Avenue
San Francisco CA 94131
Text: A volunteer group that manages the horticulture, volunteer, and
educational programs at Alemany Farm, a 3.5 acre organic farm
ecosystem in southeast San Francisco.
Friends of Alemany Farm grows food security and educates local
residents about how they can become their own food producers. We
strive to increase ecological knowledge and habitat value, and to sow
the seeds for economic and environmental justice.
The farm is located at 700 Alemany Blvd.
Email: community.gardeners@gmail.com
Web: http://www.alemanyfarm.org
Keys: economic justice; employment; environmental justice; local food;
low-income; organic agriculture
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Name: Friends of El Cerrito Trees
Text: An all volunteer community-based group of citizens who are interested
in the protection, preservation, proper maintenance, and planting of
trees in El Cerrito's public parks, along its streets, and on private
property. Our members are also concerned with related issues of
conservation of vegetation and stewardship of natural resources for
the health and well-being of our communities and environment.
Currently, our group represents several hundred citizens of El Cerrito
with many more like-minded folks from neighboring communities who
share our goals to help El Cerrito become a beautiful, green place.
After all, we only have one planet!
Web: http://www.ectrees.org/
Keys: conservation; parks; trees; urban life
[Contact data last verified 05 Nov 2017]
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Name: Friends of Falun Gong USA
Text: A U.S.-based nonprofit organization founded in the year 2000 by
concerned Americans.
Our mission is to support the freedom of belief of persons who
practice Falun Gong. FoFG USA believes that people everywhere should
have the right to practice Falun Gong (also called Falun Dafa), a
spiritual path that includes nonviolence. FoFG USA is focused on
preventing and ending violations of the right to practice Falun Gong
openly, freely, and with dignity, worldwide.
Web: http://www.fofg.org
Keys: China; free speech; human rights; litigation; propaganda; religion;
separation of church and state
[Contact data last verified 19 Jul 2015]
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Name: Friends of San Francisco Animal Care and Control (FSFACC)
Address: c/o San Francisco Animal Care & Control
1200 15th Street
San Francisco CA 94103
Text: The only organization dedicated to raising funds for the City’s
municipal, open-admission animal shelter and its rescue partners in
order to enhance or establish programs and services that benefit
animals, and serve and educate the public.
Email: info@friendsofsfacc.org
Web: http://helpacc.org
Keys: animal shelters and adoption
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Name: Friends of Sausal Creek (FoSC)
Address: POBox 2737
Oakland CA 94602
Voice: (510) 501-FOSC (3672)
Text: A group of community members protecting Sausal Creek at a grassroots
level. The Friends recognize that citizen participation—from residents
to decision-makers, teachers, and students—is critical for building a
long-term commitment to protecting Sausal Creek as a natural resource
for the greater Oakland community.
Sausal Creek begins in the hills of Oakland, CA and runs through
Oakland to San Francisco Bay.
Email: coordinator@sausalcreek.org
Web: http://www.sausalcreek.org/
Keys: community-building; conservation; creek restoration; municipal
government; water; watersheds
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Name: Friends of Silicon Valley Animal Control Authority
Address: POBox 132
Santa Clara CA 95052
Text: Our mission is to raise funds for the Silicon Valley Animal Control
Authority (SVACA), increase awareness of its programs and services,
and to work to reduce the companion animal overpopulation problem. Our
goal is to ensure the well-being of animals through education,
outreach, and fund raising. We also aim to establish programs which
will support SVACA and benefit the animals in its care.
We aim to help SVACA find loving families for every adoptable
companion animal, assist with financial support for ill and injured
animals, and work to reduce the companion animal overpopulation
problem in our area. We are always looking for volunteers!
Email: contact@friendsofsvaca.org
Web: http://www.friendsofsvaca.org
Keys: animal shelters and adoption; population control; Santa Clara County
[Contact data last verified 09 Nov 2014]
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Name: Friends of the Animals in the Redwood Empire (FAIRE)
Address: POBox 2001
Rhonert Park CA 94927
Voice: (707) 228-0256
Text: FAIRE's overall mission is to provide programs to help the pets and
pet owners in our community. Our goal with these programs is to
encourage responsible pet ownership along with increasing adoptions
and reducing the need for euthanasia at our six local animal shelters.
Web: http://www.faireonline.org/
Keys: animal liberation; animal shelters and adoption; Marin County
[Contact data last verified 05 Nov 2016]
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Name: Friends of the Eel River (FOER)
Address: POBox 4945
Arcata CA 95518-4945
Voice: (707) 822-3342
Text: Mission is to restore the Eel River and all her tributaries to a
natural state of abundance, wild and free.
Our immediate goal is to remove two antiquated dams that block
hundreds of miles of prime spawning grounds. A river needs to stay in
the watershed where it is birthed for that river system to remain
healthy -Friends of the Eel River.
Web: http://www.eelriver.org/
Keys: dams; deforestation; Mendocino County; mining; water
[Contact data last verified 09 Nov 2014]
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Name: Friends of the MST (FMST)
Text: A network of individuals and organizations that support the Brazilian
Landless Workers Movement (MST) in the struggle for social and
economic justice while securing respect for human rights. The FMST
works to build solidarity and educate the public in the US and
English-speaking world in order to raise the international profile of
the MST. The FMST has a direct relationship to the MST and is a
501(c)(3) tax-exempt non-profit organization.
Web: http://www.mstbrazil.org/
Keys: agriculture; Brazil; economic justice; human rights; labor; land
reform; solidarity
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Name: Friends of the River (FOR)
Text: California's only statewide river conservation organization. FOR is
nationally recognized as an authority on the adverse impacts of dams
on rivers and ecosystems.
Our Mission: Friends of the River protects and restores California
Rivers by influencing public policy and inspiring citizen action.
Web: http://www.friendsoftheriver.org/
Keys: conservation; dams; policy; water; watersheds
[Contact data last verified 01 Mar 2015]
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Name: Friends of the Urban Forest
Address: Presidio of San Francisco
1007 General Kennedy Avenue, Suite 1
San Francisco CA 94129-1405
Voice: (415) 561-6890
Text: Helps individuals and neighborhood groups plant and care for street
trees and sidewalk gardens in San Francisco. This "green
infrastructure" improves the city by beautifying neighborhoods,
cleaning the air, raising property values and reducing polluted
stormwater runoff. Since 1981, FUF has planted more than 50,000 trees,
totaling 47% of the city's street tree canopy.
Web: http://www.fuf.net/
Keys: community-building; grants / financial aid; neighborhoods; parks;
technical assistance; trees; urban life
[Contact data last verified 05 Nov 2017]
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Name: Full Circle Farm
Address: 1055 Dunford Way
Sunnyvale CA 94087
Voice: (408) 475-2531
Fax: (408) 716-8876
Text: A project of Sustainable Community Gardens (SCG), a community-based
501(c)(3) nonprofit corporation dedicated to the renewal of local,
sustainable food systems.
While we are not Certified Organic, Full Circle Farm operates using
the organic principles set forth in the National Organic Program. We
are committed to sustainable principles of operation. As such the use
of petroleum based fertilizers, as well as non-organic herbicides and
pesticides is not part of our operating philosophy.
Email: info@fullcirclesunnyvale.org
Web: http://www.fullcirclesunnyvale.org
Keys: children; food; local economy; local food; nutrition; organic
agriculture; Santa Clara County; students; sustainability
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Name: Fully Informed Jury Association (FIJA)
Text: FIJA works to:
• Inform potential jurors of their traditional, legal authority to refuse to
enforce unjust laws
• Inform potential jurors that they cannot be required to check their
consciences at the courthouse door
• Inform potential jurors that they cannot be punished for their
verdicts
• Inform everyone that juror veto—jury nullification—is a peaceful way
to protect human rights against corrupt politicians and government
tyranny
Web: http://www.fija.org/
Keys: judiciation; right to know
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Name: Funny Times
Text: A monthly magazine of humor and satire in a world gone totally insane.
We read thousands of cartoons in order to find and collect the “best
of the best” each month.
For nearly 30 years we have searched out and brought on board the most
hilarious minds of America. They supply us with delightfully funny,
left leaning, intelligent humor which is guaranteed to make you laugh
(or your money back!).
Web: http://funnytimes.com/
Keys: comics; editorial comment; humor; newspapers
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Name: Furry Friends Rescue
Address: POBox 7270
Fremont CA 94537-7270
Voice: (510) 794-4703
Text: An all-volunteer non-profit Bay Area companion animal rescue
organization, comprised entirely of experienced volunteers who
collectively have rescued thousands of companion animals and placed
them in forever loving homes.
Email: info@furryfriendsrescue.org
Web: http://www.furryfriendsrescue.org/
Keys: Alameda County (below Oakland); animal liberation; animal shelters and
adoption
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Name: Further The Work: Advancing Social Justice
Address: 855 Meadow View Drive
Richmond CA 94806
Voice: (510) 243-0122
Fax: (510) 243-0132
Text: At Further The Work, we believe in maximizing your organizational
capacity by understanding the big picture – the social mission you’re
trying to accomplish – while respecting the smaller details of how you
do what you do, every day.
We strive to create true partnerships with our clients, customizing
our mix of consultation and direct service to best respond to your
needs. So whether we’re crafting effective grant proposals or coaching
your team in developing a multi-year strategic plan, FTW is flexible,
creative, and effective, offering a powerful array of ideas,
expertise, and solutions to meet each project’s needs.
Email: Rebecca@FurtherTheWork.com
Web: http://www.FurtherTheWork.com
Keys: classes / courses; consultants; Contra Costa County; facilitation;
fundraising; research
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Name: Future of Food, The
Text: A film that distills the complex technology and consumer issues
surrounding major changes in the food system today -- genetically
engineered foods, patenting, and the corporatization of food -- into
terms the average person can understand. It empowers consumers to
realize the consequences of their food choices on our future.
Web: http://www.thefutureoffood.com
Keys: biotechnology; consumer protection; control techniques; corporations;
film / video; food; genetic engineering; litigation; patents; seeds
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Name: Future of Music Coalition (FMC)
Text: A national nonprofit organization that works to ensure a diverse
musical culture where artists flourish, are compensated fairly for
their work, and where fans can find the music they want.
FMC has provided an important forum for discussion about issues at the
intersection of music, technology, policy and law. Guided by a firm
conviction that public policy has real impact on the lives of both
musicians and fans, FMC advocates for a balanced approach to music in
the digital age — one that reflects the interests of all stakeholders,
and not just the powerful few.
Web: http://www.futureofmusic.org
Keys: coalitions; intellectual property; law; music; policy; technology
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Name: Gallinas Watershed Council (GWC)
Address: POBox 4284
San Rafael CA 94913
Voice: (415) 578-2580
Text: A group of concerned citizens who live and work in Las Gallinas
Valley, North San Rafael, Marin County. From the headwaters in the
hills of Terra Linda to the wetlands of Santa Venetia, we are
committed to using the WATERSHED APPROACH to protect and manage our
environment. We are a 501c(3) Nonprofit fiscally sponsored by
MarinLink.
Web: http://www.gallinaswatershed.org
Keys: Marin County; watersheds; wetlands
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Name: Garden (film), The
Text: The fourteen-acre community garden at 41st and Alameda in South
Central Los Angeles is the largest of its kind in the United States.
Started as a form of healing after the devastating L.A. riots in 1992,
the South Central Farmers have since created a miracle in one of the
country’s most blighted neighborhoods. Growing their own food. Feeding
their families. Creating a community.
But now, bulldozers are poised to level their 14-acre oasis.
The Garden follows the plight of the farmers, from the tilled soil of
this urban farm to the polished marble of City Hall. Mostly immigrants
from Latin America, from countries where they feared for their lives
if they were to speak out, we watch them organize, fight back, and
demand answers.
Web: http://www.blackvalleyfilms.com/films/the-garden/
Keys: do-it-yourself; film / video; gardening; land use; local food;
neighborhoods; urban life
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Name: Garden for the Environment (GFE)
Address: 1663 Mission Street, Suite 320
San Francisco CA 94103
Text: Maintains a nationally acclaimed one-acre urban demonstration garden
and offers environmental education programs about organic gardening,
urban compost systems and sustainable food systems. Since its founding
in 1990, the garden has operated as a demonstration site for
small-scale urban ecological food production, organic gardening and
low water-use landscaping.
The Garden is located in San Francisco on 7th Avenue at Lawton Street.
Email: info@gardenfortheenvironment.org
Web: http://www.gardenfortheenvironment.org
Keys: classes / courses; composting; gardening; organic agriculture;
recycling; sustainability; urban life; water
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Name: Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD)
Text: GLAAD rewrites the script for LGBTQ acceptance. As a dynamic media
force, GLAAD tackles tough issues to shape the narrative and provoke
dialogue that leads to cultural change. GLAAD protects all that has
been accomplished and creates a world where everyone can live the life
they love.
Web: http://www.glaad.org
Keys: corporations; homophobia; letter-writing; media criticism; sexual
minorities
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Name: Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender Historical Society of Northern
California (GLBTHS)
Address: 657 Mission Street #300
San Francisco CA 94105
Voice: (415) 777-5455
Text: Collects, preserves and interprets the history of GLBT people and the
communities that support them. Founded in 1985, we are recognized
internationally as a leader in the field of GLBT public history. The
GLBT Historical Society is a registered 501(c)3 educational nonprofit
organization.
Email: info@glbthistory.org
Web: http://www.glbthistory.org
Keys: archiving; art; history; research materials; sexual minorities
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Name: Gaylesta, Inc.
Address: 584 Castro Street #230
San Francisco CA 94114-2512
Voice: (415) 729-3996
Text: The LGBT Psychotherapy Association. Gaylesta has grown to include
over 300 mental health professionals. To our knowledge, we are the
oldest and largest collection of individuals focused on LGBTQ mental
health. Our membership collectively offers a range of services,
experience, specializations, and expertise.
We work to promote awareness of the special skills our members have to
offer the LGBTQ communities and the general public. We do this through
an online referral service through which our members can market their
practices, as well as through community outreach; advertising; and
public speaking.
Web: http://www.gaylesta.org
Keys: mental health; psychotherapy; sexual minorities
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Name: General Assistance Advocacy Project (GAAP)
Address: 276 Golden Gate Avenue
San Francisco CA 94102
Voice: (415) 928-8191
Fax: (415) 928-1410
Text: Mission is to provide education, empowerment and advocacy to those who
need it most. GAAP serves over 2,000 homeless and marginally housed
San Franciscans each month by helping them obtain and retain the
public benefits to which they are entitled. GAAP is the only free
walk-in public benefits clinic in San Francisco available throughout
the week. And GAAP does it with only two paid staff members, assisted
by many devoted community and Bay Area student volunteers.
Web: http://www.gaap.org
Keys: homelessness; lawyers; legal services; policy; services; welfare
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Name: Generating Renewable Ideas for Development Alternatives (GRID
Alternatives)
Address: 1171 Ocean Avenue, Suite 200
Oakland CA 94608
Voice: (510) 731-1310
Text: GRID Alternatives' vision is a transition to clean, renewable energy
that includes everyone. Our mission is to make renewable energy
technology and training available to underserved communities.
GRID Alternatives Bay Area leads teams of volunteers and job trainees
to install solar electric systems for low-income families from Santa
Clara to Sonoma County, providing families with needed savings and
giving Bay Area workers hands-on experience to help them find jobs in
the green-tech economy.
Email: infoba@gridalternatives.org
Web: http://www.gridalternatives.org
Keys: appropriate technology; conservation; developing world; development;
energy; environmental justice; global community; health; housing;
Latin America; Middle East; renewable energy; solar energy;
sustainability; technical assistance; women
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Name: Genetics Policy Institute (GPI)
Text: A leading promoter and defender of stem cell research and other
cutting-edge medical research targeting cures. We are the catalyst and
provide leadership to the Pro-Cures Movement, an influential global
network of stakeholders' from patient-advocacy, science and industry.
GPI seeks to catalyze and help lead a global network of influential
stakeholder groups representing patient advocates, scientists,
physicians and health care professionals, industrialists,
bioethicists, lawyers, educators, and policy-makers.
Web: http://stemcellaction.org
Keys: research; science; stem cell research
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Name: GI Rights Hotline
Voice: (877) 447-4487
Text: Since 1994, the GI Rights Hotline has been providing free,
confidential, and accurate information on US military regulations and
practices to servicemembers, veterans, potential recruits, and their
families.
We are a consortium of nearly twenty non-governmental, non-profit
organizations located in eleven states and in Germany. Some of our
counselors are veterans, some are lawyers and some have decades of
military counseling experience. We are in constant contact with each
other to stay up-to-date on the latest military regulations and
practices.
We provide resources and counseling options. Many of us are not
lawyers and therefore cannot give legal advice, but, in cases in which
an attorney might be useful, we may be able to help you find one.
Web: http://www.girightshotline.org
Keys: civil rights; conscientious objectors; draft / registration;
militarism
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Name: Gill Tract Community Farm
Text: A collaborative community project between the UC and the community,
focused on issues of food justice and urban farming. It is located in
Albany, CA, at the corner of San Pablo Ave and Marin Ave.
It is an urban farm where you can come and harvest food for yourself
and your family in exchange for help with weeding, planting, and
watering; it aims to supply fresh organic food to anyone who lacks
access to it in our East Bay communities.
The GT Community Farm is one of the increasing number of urban
agriculture and alternative sustainable food systems worldwide that
exist to develop innovative local solutions to social, environmental
and economic injustices.
Web: http://gilltractfarm.wordpress.com
Keys: direct action; food security; local food; organic agriculture;
sustainability; urban life
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Name: Girls on the Run of the Bay Area
Address: The Women's Building
3543 18th Street #31 (near Valencia)
San Francisco CA 94110
Voice: (415) 863-8942
Fax: (415) 863-8989
Text: A life-changing, non-profit program for girls in the 3rd through 8th
grade. Our mission is to inspire girls to be joyful, healthy and
confident using a fun, experience-based curriculum which creatively
integrates running.
The 20-lesson Girls on the Run curriculum combines training for a 5K
(3.1 miles) running event with lessons that inspire girls to become
independent thinkers, enhance their problem solving skills and make
healthy decisions. All of this is accomplished through an active
collaboration with girls and their parents, schools, volunteers,
staff, and the community.
Email: info@gotrbayarea.org
Web: http://www.gotrbayarea.org
Keys: children; educational curriculum; mentoring; sports
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Name: GirlVentures
Address: The Women's Building
3543 18th Street #18
San Francisco CA 94110
Voice: (415) 864-0780
Fax: (415) 861-3464
Text: Mission is to empower adolescent girls to develop and express their
strengths.
We envision a world in which girls and women are actively engaged in
the leadership of thriving communities strengthened by diversity,
civic engagement, healthy choices and environmental responsibility.
Our programs for Bay Area girls entering 6th – 12th grade explore
self, community, culture, and the environment through outdoor
adventure, creative arts, and group experiences.
Web: http://www.girlventures.org/
Keys: children; creativity; education; outdoor activity; women; youth
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Name: GLBT Historical Society
Address: 989 Market Street, Lower Level
San Francisco CA 94103
Voice: (415) 777-5455
Text: Collects, preserves, exhibits and makes accessible to the public
materials and knowledge to support and promote understanding of LGBTQ
history, culture and arts in all their diversity.
Founded in 1985, we are recognized internationally as a leader in the
field of LGBTQ public history. The GLBT Historical Society is a
registered 501(c)3 educational nonprofit organization.
Web: http://www.glbthistory.org/
Keys: art; bisexuals; Gays; history; Lesbians; museums; sexual minorities;
transgenders
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Name: Glide Memorial United Methodist Church
Address: 330 Ellis Street
San Francisco CA 94102
Voice: (415) 674-6000
Text: Mission is to create a radically inclusive, just and loving community
mobilized to alleviate suffering and break the cycles of poverty and
marginalization.
Our Core Values emerge from GLIDE as a spiritual movement. They are
rooted in empowerment, recovery and personal transformation. Our
values inspire and guide our behaviors.
Email: info@glide.org
Web: http://www.glide.org/
Keys: AIDS / HIV; children; classes / courses; computers; employment;
family; healthcare access; hunger; literacy; religion; services; urban
life; women; youth
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Name: Global Alliance for Incinerator Alternatives (GAIA)
Text: A worldwide alliance of more than 650 grassroots groups,
non-governmental organizations, and individuals in over 90 countries
whose ultimate vision is a just, toxic-free world without
incineration.
We work both against incinerators and for safe, sustainable and just
alternatives.
Web: http://www.no-burn.org/
Keys: air; coalitions; pollution; prevention; sustainability; waste
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Name: Global Exchange (GX)
Address: 2017 Mission Street, Second Floor
San Francisco CA 94110
Voice: (415) 255-7296
Fax: (415) 255-7498
Text: An international human rights organization dedicated to promoting
social, economic and environmental justice around the world. We take a
holistic approach to creating change and as an education and action
resource center, we advance our vision by working to ensure our
members and constituents are empowered locally and connected globally
to create a just and sustainable world.
We realize that in order to advance social, environmental and economic
justice we must transform the global economy from profit-centered to
people-centered, from currency to community.
Web: http://www.globalexchange.org
Keys: calendars; corporate-controlled globalization; Cuba; fair trade;
Haiti; internationalism; material aid; products; speakers; travel;
World Trade Organization
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Name: Global Forest Watch (GFW)
Text: An interactive online forest monitoring and alert system designed to
empower people everywhere with the information they need to better
manage and conserve forest landscapes. Global Forest Watch uses
cutting edge technology and science to provide the timeliest and most
precise information about the status of forest landscapes worldwide,
including near-real-time alerts showing suspected locations of recent
tree cover loss. GFW is free and simple to use, enabling anyone to
create custom maps, analyze forest trends, subscribe to alerts, or
download data for their local area or the entire world.
Web: http://www.globalforestwatch.org/
Keys: analysis; conservation; deforestation; maps; science; trees
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Name: Global Fund for Women, The
Address: 222 Sutter Street, Suite 500
San Francisco CA 94108
Voice: (415) 248-4800
Text: We advance the rights of women and girls worldwide by increasing the
resources for and investing in women-led organizations and women’s
collective leadership for change.
We envision a just, equitable and sustainable world in which women and
girls have resources, voice, choice and opportunities to realize their
human rights.
Web: http://www.globalfundforwomen.org
Keys: grants / financial aid; human rights; women
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Name: Global Glimpse
Text: A movement of hundreds of passionate, determined problem-solvers
collaborating across borders to bring life-changing education abroad
to high school students from all socioeconomic backgrounds.
We are committed to building a new generation of diverse young leaders
who are equipped and inspired to tackle the social, political, and
economic challenges of their generation.
Web: http://www.globalglimpse.org/
Keys: leadership development; multiculturalism; students; travel
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Name: Global Justice Ecology Project (GJEP)
Text: Explores and exposes the intertwined root causes of social injustice,
ecological destruction, and economic domination.
GJEP envisions a world in which all societies are justly and equitably
governed with full participation by an engaged and informed populace
living in harmony with the natural world and one another.
We accomplish our mission by (1) prioritizing campaigns that are key
leverage points for advancing systemic change, and (2) linking
struggles and strengthening diverse movements with strategic action,
information, and analysis.
Web: http://www.globaljusticeecology.org/
Keys: ecology; economic justice; environmental justice; interconnectedness
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Name: Global Policy Forum (GPF)
Text: An independent policy watchdog that monitors the work of the United
Nations and scrutinizes global policymaking. We promote accountability
and citizen participation in decisions on peace and security, social
justice and international law.
GPF gathers information and circulates it through a comprehensive
website, as well as through reports and newsletters. We play an active
role in NGO networks and other advocacy arenas. We organize meetings
and conferences and we publish original research and policy papers.
GPF analyzes deep and persistent structures of power and dissects
rapidly-emerging issues and crises. GPF's work challenges mainstream
thinking and questions conventional wisdom. We seek egalitarian,
cooperative, peaceful and sustainable solutions to the world's great
problems.
Web: http://www.globalpolicy.org/
Keys: global issues; news on-line; peace; policy; United Nations
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Name: Global Security Institute (GSI)
Text: Dedicated to strengthening international cooperation and security
based on the rule of law, with a particular focus on nuclear arms
control, non-proliferation and disarmament. GSI was founded by Senator
Alan Cranston whose insight that nuclear weapons are impractical,
unacceptably risky, and unworthy of civilization continues to inspire
GSI's efforts to contribute to a safer world. GSI has developed an
exceptional team that includes former heads of state and government,
distinguished diplomats, effective politicians, committed celebrities,
religious leaders, Nobel Peace Laureates, disarmament and legal
experts, and concerned citizens.
Web: http://www.gsinstitute.org
Keys: global issues; nuclear weapons / testing
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Name: Global Trade Watch (GTW)
Text: Public Citizen's Global Trade Watch seeks to ensure that in this era
of globalization, all Americans can enjoy economic security, a clean
environment, safe food, medicines and products, access to quality
affordable services such as health care and the exercise of democratic
decision-making in matters that affect them and their communities.
Web: http://www.tradewatch.org/
Keys: consumer protection; corporate-controlled globalization; corporations;
economic justice; government; health; investment; lobbying; research;
trade; watchdog groups
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Name: Global Women Intact
Address: 1928 Ellis Street
San Francisco CA 94115
Voice: (415) 928-4019
Fax: (415) 831-1080
Text: A 501(c)(3) charitable organization that nurtures arts of the african
diaspora, and uses performance and presentations—including dance,
music, theater, comedy and education—to raise awareness of the beauty
and complexity of african cultures, and their impact on health and
well-being. in particular, gwi is devoted to raising awareness about
female genital cutting (fgc) and provides alternative, arts-based and
culturally appropriate rites of initiation that honor the intact and
healthy bodies of girls and women.
Email: amma@globalwomenintact.org
Web: http://www.celebrateclitoris.com
Keys: Africa; circumcision; services; women
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Name: GMO Inside
Text: A campaign dedicated to helping all Americans know which foods have
GMOs inside, and the non-GMO verified and organic certified
alternatives to genetically engineered foods. We believe that everyone
has a right to know what’s in their food and to choose foods that are
proven safe for themselves, their families, and the environment.
GMO Inside gives people information and tools, and provides a place
for a growing community of people from all walks of life, to share
information and actions around genetically engineered foods. Join the
campaign and take part in the GMO Inside community on Facebook and
Twitter.
Web: http://gmoinside.org
Keys: agriculture; food; genetic engineering; right to know
[Contact data last verified 31 Jul 2016]
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Name: Go Vegan! Radio
Address: POBox 475414
San Francisco CA 94147
Voice: (818) 623-6477
Text: Listener-supported and advertiser-sponsored GO VEGAN RADIO WITH BOB
LINDEN is the 501(c)3 non-profit radio show about everything – food,
health, environment, peace, politics, social justice – and broadcasts
the solutions to all the problems about which other talk shows merely
complain – war, violence, disease, world hunger, poverty, climate
change, deforestation, resource depletion, water shortage, energy
crises, habitat destruction, animal suffering. Produces the WORLD
VEGAN SUMMIT & EXPO.
Email: goveganradio@gmail.com
Web: http://www.goveganradio.com/
http://www.WorldVeganSummit.com
Keys: radio; veganism / vegetarianism
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Name: Golden Gate Council of Hostelling International USA
Text: Hostelling International USA’s Northwest Region is a network of eight
hostels providing top-quality accommodations in San Francisco,
Sacramento, and four State and National Parks.
Hostelling International (HI) is the only global network of Youth
Hostel Associations, and the brand is a seal of approval recognized
around the world. With roots that stretch back to the beginning of the
hostel movement more than 100 years ago, the organization ensures that
all hostels that display the trademark logo meet international
standards for cleanliness, service and safety.
Web: http://www.norcalhostels.org
Keys: hostels
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Name: Golden Gate National Parks Conservancy
Address: Building 201
Fort Mason
San Francisco CA 94123
Voice: (415) 561-3000
Fax: (415) 561-3003
Text: Mission of the Parks Conservancy is to preserve the Golden Gate
National Parks, enhance the park visitor experience, and build a
community dedicated to conserving the parks for the future.
We are a community-supported nonprofit organization transforming
places—and people—through conservation and improvement of these
remarkable national parks.
We are dedicated to protecting these PARKS, making them relevant and
accessible FOR ALL communities, and instilling a sense of stewardship
in this and future generations to ensure their vitality FOREVER.
Email: tellmemore@parksconservancy.org
Web: http://www.parksconservancy.org
Keys: conservation; national government; parks
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Name: Golden State Greyhound Adoption (GSGA)
Address: PMB 182
2977 Ygnacio Valley Road
Walnut Creek CA 94598-3535
Voice: (925) 946-0426
Text: We exist to educate the public on the plight of the retired racing
greyhound in order to find great homes for former-racing greyhounds.
G.S.G.A. exists to place as many of the greyhounds that would
otherwise perish as possible. We do not have kennels or a complex.
Everything we do is with and through our volunteers and our wonderful
foster home program. We could not accomplish this rewarding work
without our volunteers who foster and spend their weekends at local
venues with their greyhounds educating the public about these
wonderful companions.
Email: gsga@astound.net
Web: http://www.goldengreyhounds.com
Keys: animal liberation; animal shelters and adoption
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Name: Good Shepherd Gracenter
Address: 1310 Bacon Street
San Francisco CA 94134
Voice: (415) 337-1938
Text: Good Shepherd Gracenter, owned and operated by the Sisters of the Good
Shepherd, is a thirteen (13) bed residential addiction recovery
facility for women between the ages of 18 to 35 and is licensed by the
State. It is a tax-exempt 501 (c)(3) nonprofit organization.
The Sisters of the Good Shepherd operate over 700 homes in 71
countries and 70+ programs in 22 states. Recognizing the Sisters of
the Good Shepherd as experts in the treatment and rehabilitation of
young women, the United Nations has given them NGO status and provided
them with an advisory office within the United Nations headquarters.
Email: inquiry@gsgracenter.org
Web: http://www.gsgracenter.org
Keys: addiction; services; women
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Name: GRACE Communications Foundation (Sustainable Table)
Text: Develops innovative strategies to increase public awareness of the
critical environmental and public health issues created by our current
industrial food system, and to advocate for more sustainable
alternatives.
By building partnerships and mobilizing philanthropic resources, we
promote consumer actions and public policies that support sustainable
food production and embrace the complex interconnections of food,
water and energy.
The Sustainable Table program celebrates local, sustainable food,
educates consumers about the benefits of sustainable agriculture and
works to build community through food.
Web: http://www.gracelinks.org/
http://sustainabletable.org
Keys: animal liberation; biodiversity; consumer protection; food;
fundraising; health; local food; organic agriculture; pesticides;
sustainability
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Name: GRAIN
Text: GRAIN is a small international non-profit organisation that works to
support small farmers and social movements in their struggles for
community-controlled and biodiversity-based food systems.
Web: http://www.grain.org
Keys: agriculture; autonomy; biodiversity; corporate-controlled
globalization; food; research materials; seeds
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Name: Grandmothers Against the War
Text: Believes the U.S. military presence around the world has escalated,
not alleviated, death and destruction, inflamed and encouraged radical
anti-U.S. attitudes, and failed to keep the U.S. safer. With
approximately half of every tax dollar going towards military costs,
this country cannot deal with its own social and economic needs while
internally it has become increasingly militaristic.
Our Goals:
End the U.S. military presence around the globe and the growing
militarization of U.S. society
Promote the use of peaceful negotiations, not military force, to
resolve international conflicts
Email: info@gawba.org
Web: http://www.gawba.org/
Keys: Afghanistan; Middle East; militarism; seniors
[Contact data last verified 05 Nov 2017]
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Name: Grassroots Economic Organizing (GEO)
Text: A decentralized collective of educators, researchers and grassroots
activists working to promote an economy based on democratic
participation, worker and community ownership, social and economic
justice, and ecological sustainability--a "solidarity
economy"--through grassroots journalism, organizing support,
cross-sector networking and movement-building and the publication of
educational and organizational resources.
Web: http://www.geonewsletter.org
Keys: community-building; cooperatives; economics; employment; labor; local
economy; newsletters; sustainability
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Name: Grassroots House Collective
Address: 2022 Blake Street,
Berkeley CA 94704
Voice: (510) 590-6227
Text: A non-profit that collectively owns and operates an office building in
Berkeley. This building at 2022 Blake Street houses important local
organizations such as Copwatch, the Green Party, the Prisoner's
Literature Project, The International Solidarity Movement and the
Industrial Workers of the World. It has also had a historic role in
many of the progressive struggles coming out of the East Bay.
Having a space to work is absolutely crucial to progressive organizers
and workspace is an extremely rare commodity. Without a place to be,
most grassroots efforts die out within months. This precious space
allows tiny local organizing efforts a chance to grow.
Web: http://www.grassrootshouse.org/
Keys: collectives
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Name: Grassroots Institute for Fundraising Training (GIFT)
Address: 1904 Franklin Street, Suite 808
Oakland CA 94612
Voice: (510) 452-4520
Text: A multiracial organization that promotes the connection between
fundraising, social justice and movement-building. We believe that how
groups are funded is as important to achieving their goals as how the
money is spent, and that building community support is central to
long-term social change. We provide training, resources and analysis
to strengthen organizations, with an emphasis on those focused on
social justice and based in communities of color.
Web: http://www.grassrootsfundraising.org
Keys: fundraising; magazines; people of color
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Name: grassroots.org
Text: Mission is to serve as a catalyst for positive social change by
offering free technology tools, resources and best practices for
nonprofit organizations to leverage their charitable efforts and serve
their community more effectively.
Web: http://grassroots.org
Keys: directories; technical assistance
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Name: Gray Panthers, San Francisco
Address: 2940 16th Street, Room 200-3
San Francisco CA 94103
Voice: (415) 552-8800
Text: We stand for age and youth working together to make the world a place
where the young can look forward to growing old. We believe all people
are entitled to certain fundamental rights:
* Meaningful employment.
* A country free from racism.
* Economic security.
* Decent and affordable housing and healthcare
* A world in peace.
* A life of dignity from birth to death, free from fear and
abuse.
We are:
* Progressive.
* Environmentalist.
* Anti-racist.
* Anti-war.
Email: graypanther-sf@sonic.net
Web: http://graypantherssf.igc.org/
Keys: healthcare access; seniors
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Name: Greater Good Sciences Center (GGSC)
Address: University of California, Berkeley
2425 Atherton Street 6070
Berkeley CA 94720-6070
Voice: (510) 642-2490
Text: Studies the psychology, sociology, and neuroscience of well-being, and
teaches skills that foster a thriving, resilient, and compassionate
society.
Based at the University of California, Berkeley, the GGSC is unique in
its commitment to both science and practice: not only do we sponsor
groundbreaking scientific research into social and emotional
well-being, we help people apply this research to their personal and
professional lives.
Email: greater@berkeley.edu
Web: http://greatergood.berkeley.edu/
Keys: educators; evolution; magazines; policy; psychology; research; science
[Contact data last verified 25 Apr 2015]
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Name: Green Aid: The Medical Marijuana Legal Defense and Education Fund,
Inc.
Address: 484 Lake Park Avenue #172
Oakland CA 94610
Text: In response to attacks on state-legal patients and providers, key
leadership from the medical marijuana and law reform movements came
together in 2002 to form Green Aid.– a 501(c)(3) charitable
corporation that provides groundbreaking services designed to protect
the civil rights of medical marijuana stakeholders in our local
communities.
Email: contact@green-aid.com
Web: http://www.green-aid.com/
Keys: civil rights; healthcare access; medical marijuana
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Name: Green Building Pages
Text: An on-line, sustainable design and decision-making tool for building
industry professionals and environmentally and socially responsible
consumer. Green Building Pages’ mission is to create a clear, concise,
public format for communicating comprehensive, current, and
transparent information to enable building industry professionals and
consumers seeking a healthy, sustainable lifestyle to choose building
materials that preserve health, the environment, and whose production
and manufacture processes promote social equity and economic
sustainability.
Web: http://greenbuildingpages.com/
Keys: building materials; directories; sustainability
[Contact data last verified 14 May 2016]
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Name: Green City Project (GCP)
Address: POBox 31251
San Francisco CA 94131
Voice: (415) 285-6556
Fax: (415) 285-6563
Text: Dedicated to increasing the compatibility of cities with their local
natural systems by providing resources to link individuals and group
with each other and community-based ecological activities. Green City
is a project of the Planet Drum Foundation, a non-profit ecological
education organization that promotes the concepts of bioregions and
emphasizes sustainability, community self-determination and regional
self-reliance.
Email: planetdrum@igc.apc.org
Web: http://www.sustainable-city.org/orgs/gcp.htm
Keys: calendars; ecology; educational curriculum; land use; networking;
sustainability; urban life; volunteer matching
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Name: Green Office, The
Address: POBox 225115
San Francisco CA 94122
Voice: (800) 909-9750
Fax: (866) 678-5056
Text: A one-stop online retailer featuring over 38,000 green and
conventional office products and a comprehensive range of
sustainability services designed to make office greening easy and cost
effective. We take the research out of responsible shopping by
labeling and ranking our catalog by greenness, allowing you to balance
price, performance, and sustainability.
Web: http://www.thegreenoffice.com/
Keys: mail-order; products; recycling; sustainability
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Name: Green Party, San Francisco
Address: c/o David Fairley
25 Fair Oaks Street
San Francisco CA 94110
Voice: (415) 480-GPSF (480-4773)
Text: Part of a large and growing grassroots electoral movement, which is
attempting to restore the democratic process and put people in office
who truly are working in the best interests of the majority. Only by
doing this can we solidify progress, and prevent the rollback of the
gains made by society.
We are a part of the Green Party of California, which is part of the
Green Party of the United States, one of many Green Parties around the
world.
Email: cc@sfgreens.org
Web: http://www.sfgreenparty.org
Keys: greens; political parties; voter registration
[Contact data last verified 12 May 2018]
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Name: Green Party of Alameda County
Voice: (510) 644-2293
Text: The Green Party of Alameda County, part of the East Bay Region of the
Green Party of California, has over 6,400 registered members here in
Alameda county. We have been active for over 20 years, hold monthly
meetings and “Green Sundays” on the second Sunday evening of each
month at Niebyl Proctor Library in Oakland, and host conferences,
public events, and gatherings for up to 1000 people in the Bay Area.
Web: http://acgreens.wordpress.com/
Keys: greens; political parties
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Name: Green Party of Contra Costa County
Address: POBox 2361
El Cerrito CA 94530
Text: A ballot-qualified, non-corporate, political party working toward
progressive change. We flatly reject the notion that only the
so-called "better off" should have a voice in Government. And because
we won't accept "big money" we are free to address the real issues so
often ignored by the bigger political parties.
Web: http://coco.cagreens.org
Keys: Contra Costa County; greens; political parties
[Contact data last verified 05 Nov 2017]
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Name: Green Planet Films, Inc.
Address: POBox 247
Corte Madera CA 94941
Voice: (415) 377-5471
Text: Advocates environmental awareness through education with an emphasis
on film. We view the need for humanity to meaningfully engage with its
living environment has reached a tipping point. We support this
advocacy by developing and maintaining a media library for
distribution to educational and public institutions, non-profits,
businesses and individuals. Our perspective on environmental ecology,
also includes human ecology.
To supplement this effort, we maintain a network of subject matter
experts among film producers, scientists, academics, as well as other
distributors who share a common aspiration to identify, produce and
share discoveries in nature and humanity.
Web: http://greenplanetfilms.org
Keys: biodiversity; conservation; ecology; film / video; mail-order;
products; science; sustainability
[Contact data last verified 31 Jul 2016]
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Name: Green Press Initiative
Text: Committed to advancing sustainable patterns of production and
consumption within the U.S. book and newspaper industries and within
the paper industry at large. GPI also advances policy innovations
related to paper and climate change and recycling and incubates
pioneering new strategies for market transformation.
Web: http://www.greenpressinitiative.org/
Keys: books; climate change; newspapers; policy; recycling; trees
[Contact data last verified 05 Nov 2017]
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Name: Green Science Policy Institute (GSP)
Address: POBox 9127
Berkeley CA 94709
Voice: (510) 898-1739
Text: Mission is to facilitate responsible use of chemicals to protect human
and ecological health. We educate and build partnerships among
scientists, regulators, businesses, and public interest groups to
develop innovative solutions for reducing harmful chemicals in
products.
To achieve this, we:
Provide unbiased scientific data for informed decision-making.
Motivate and participate in scientific research that serves the
public interest.
Act as a watchdog for regulations that could lead to increased use
of toxics.
Promote policy and purchasing decisions to reduce the use of
classes of harmful chemicals
Email: info@greensciencepolicy.org
Web: http://greensciencepolicy.org
Keys: consumer protection; health; policy; research; science; toxics
[Contact data last verified 18 Aug 2016]
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Name: Green Tortoise Adventure Travel
Address: 494 Broadway
San Francisco CA 94133
Voice: (800) TORTOISE (800-867-8647)
Text: Offers affordable adventure bus tours to the best USA and Central
American destinations, including Yosemite, the Grand Canyon,
Cross-Country USA, Alaska, and Mexico that will inspire the active and
reflective alike! Our overland holidays and backpacker tours include
wilderness adventures, camping, and trekking in America's best
National Parks.
Email: tortoise@greentortoise.com
Web: http://www.greentortoise.com/
Keys: outdoor activity; travel
[Contact data last verified 09 Nov 2014]
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Name: Green-Collar Communities Clinic (GC3)
Address: 3130 Shattuck Avenue
Berkeley CA 94703
Voice: (510) 548-4064 x611
Text: The community economic justice practice of the East Bay Community Law
Center (EBCLC). Our mission is to advance green jobs and resilient
communities through cooperative ownership. We have a three-pronged
approach to our work - Inspire, Inform and Incubate - transformative
ventures through community-based workshops, clinics and direct
representation. We are the first legal clinic in the country focused
on incubating cooperative enterprises through the lens of racial
justice.
Email: jpoyaoan@ebclc.org
Web: http://greencollarcommunities.wordpress.com
Keys: classes / courses; cooperatives; development; economic justice;
employment; legal services; racism
[Contact data last verified 19 Aug 2017]
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Name: Greenaction for Health & Environmental Justice
Address: 559 Ellis Street
San Francisco CA 94109
Voice: (415) 447-3904
Fax: (415) 447-3905
Text: A multiracial grassroots organization that works with low-income and
working class urban, rural, and indigenous communities to fight
environmental racism and build a clean, healthy and just future for
all. We mobilize community power to win victories that change
government and corporate policies and practices to protect health and
to promote environmental, social and economic justice.
Email: greenaction@greenaction.org
Web: http://www.greenaction.org
https://www.facebook.com/Greenaction4EJ/
Keys: community-building; direct action; education; environmental justice;
pollution; prevention; public health; toxics
[Contact data last verified 21 Apr 2017]
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Name: Greenbelt Alliance
Address: 312 Sutter Street, Suite 510
San Francisco CA 94108
Voice: (415) 543-6771
Text: Envisions a Bay Area where the natural and agricultural lands that
provide so much to our region are protected and nurtured and where
everyone—regardless of socio-economic status—can live in a
neighborhood they are proud to call home. The Bay Area has the best of
everything—stunning natural beauty, vibrant cities and neighborhoods,
bountiful farms, and a diversity of cultural and economic
opportunities. The challenge is how the region handles growth. We have
a choice—to create wonderful cities and towns or to sprawl ever
outward.
Email: info@greenbelt.org
Web: http://www.greenbelt.org/
Keys: agriculture; conservation; housing; land use; open space; parks;
research; urban life; urban planning; urban sprawl; wetlands
[Contact data last verified 09 Nov 2014]
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Name: Greenlining Institute
Address: 360 14th Street
Oakland CA 94612
Voice: (510) 926-4001
Fax: (510) 926-4010
Text: Founded in 1993, The Greenlining Institute envisions a nation where
communities of color thrive and race is never
a barrier to economic opportunity. Because people of color will be the
majority of our population by 2044, America
will prosper only if communities of color prosper. Greenlining
advances economic opportunity and empowerment
for people of color through advocacy, community and coalition
building, research, and leadership development.
We work on a variety of major policy issues, from the economy to
environmental policy, civic engagement and many others, because
economic opportunity doesn’t operate in a vacuum. Rather than seeing
these issues as being in separate silos, Greenlining views them as
interconnected threads in a web of opportunity.
Email: info@greenlining.org
Web: http://www.Greenlining.org
Keys: coalitions; economic justice; environmental justice; health;
leadership development; policy; racism; researchers
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Name: Greywater Alliance
Text: A collaborative of educators who teach residents and tradespeople
about affordable and simple household water systems that dramatically
reduce water use and foster sustainable cultures of water. Through
hands-on workshops and presentations, we've led thousands of people
through greywater system design and construction and work with
policymakers and water districts to develop codes and incentives for
greywater, rainwater harvesting, and composting toilets. We believe
that decentralized conservation measures can play a critical role in
drought resilience, climate adaptation, and the return of healthy
stream ecosystems.
Web: http://www.greywateralliance.org/
Keys: coalitions; conservation; reuse; water
[Contact data last verified 02 Feb 2018]
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Name: GroundSpark
Address: 4104 24th Street, Suite 2013
San Francisco CA 94114
Voice: (415) 641-4616
(800) 405-3322
Text: Creates visionary films and dynamic educational campaigns that move
individuals and communities to take action for a more just world.
Our films and campaigns are a mix of independent projects we initiate
and commissioned projects for community clients.
We specialize in crafting strategic documentary films and distribution
campaigns with ambitious social, economic, and environmental justice
goals.
Email: info@groundspark.org
Web: http://groundspark.org/
Keys: film / video; public education; youth
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Name: Growing up Farms
Address: 251 Ashbury Street #14
San Francisco CA 94117
Voice: (415) 895-0359
Text: A 501 (c) 3 non-profit that supplies healthy produce to the people of
the San Francisco Bay Area. Our innovative indoor, vertical, aquaponic
food growing system will serve our local community, grow food using a
small fraction of the water used in traditional farming and provide a
model for communities and cities across the country and throughout the
world looking to localize their food supply.
Our facility is located at 5801 Mission Strreet in San Francisco.
(Entrance is on Oliver Street.)
Email: info@growingupfarms.org
Web: http://www.crtp.net
Keys: agriculture; food; local economy
[Contact data last verified 08 Feb 2015]
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Name: Growth House
Text: Provides education about life-threatening illness and end of life
care. Our primary mission is to improve the quality of compassionate
care for people who are dying through public education and global
professional collaboration. Our search engine gives you access to the
Internet's most comprehensive collection of reviewed resources for
end-of-life care.
Web: http://www.growthhouse.org
Keys: directories; healthcare access
[Contact data last verified 05 Nov 2017]
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Name: GrowthBusters: Hooked on Growth
Text: This film examines the cultural barriers that prevent us from reacting
rationally to the evidence current levels of population and
consumption are unsustainable.
It asks why the population conversations are so difficult to have. Why
it’s more important to our society to have economic growth than clean
air. Why communities seek and subsidize growth even when it destroys
quality of life and increases taxes.
Our growth-centric system is broken. It’s not providing the happiness
or the prosperity we seek. But that’s good news; it means a shift to a
sustainable model will be good for us. We’ll be happier and more
prosperous!
Web: http://www.growthbusters.org
Keys: economics; film / video; population control; sustainability
[Contact data last verified 28 Nov 2014]
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Name: Guaria de Osa, Rainforest Ocean Discovery Centre & Ethnobotanical
Gardens
Address: c/o Dahlia Miller
POBox 1004
El Cerrito CA 94530
Voice: (510) 235-4313
Text: Come visit us at Guaria de Osa, amidst a Nature Sanctuary, on the Osa
Peninsula of Costa Rica where towering stands of primary Rainforest
kiss the pristine Pacific Ocean! Our spacious lodge is equally as
unique and magical as our pristine tropical surroundings.
Proceeds, in part, will benefit The Osa Foundation / Grupo Osanimi
Rainforest Conservation and Cultural Heritage Projects among
indigenous and rural communities in Central and South America.
Email: puravida@GuariadeOsa.com
Web: http://www.guariadeosa.com
Keys: conservation; Costa Rica; deforestation; indigenous people;
rainforests; travel
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Name: Guerilla Drive-In, Santa Cruz
Text: An outdoor movie theater under the stars that springs up unexpectedly
in the fields and industrial wastelands. Beyond showing great free
movies year-round and bringing a broad community together, part of our
mission is reclaiming public space and transforming our urban
environment.
Web: http://www.guerilladrivein.org/
Keys: do-it-yourself; film / video; land use; outdoor activity; Santa Cruz
County; urban life
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Name: Gulf War Veteran Resource Pages
Text: Mission is to disseminate health related information to veterans of
the Persian Gulf War in an unbiased format. The site is operated
completely by volunteers and is not affiliated with any government
entities or programs. We've been a presence on the Internet since
early 1994, aiding Gulf War veterans in their pursuit for the truth.
Web: http://www.gulfweb.org/
Keys: health; Iraq; militarism; nuclear energy; nuclear weapons / testing;
research materials; veterans
[Contact data last verified 14 May 2016]
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Name: Habitat for Humanity East Bay / Silicon Valley
Address: 2619 Broadway
Oakland CA 94612
Voice: (510) 251-6304
Text: Brings people together to build homes, communities and hope. We
revitalize neighborhoods, build affordable and sustainable housing
solutions, and empower families through successful homeownership.
Since 1986, we have partnered with volunteers, the community, and
qualified families with limited incomes to strengthen communities in
Alameda, Contra Costa, and Santa Clara Counties.
Email: info@habitatEBSV.org
Web: http://www.habitatebsv.org
Keys: grants / financial aid; housing; low-income; religion
[Contact data last verified 21 Apr 2017]
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Name: Habitat for Humanity Greater San Francisco
Address: 500 Washington Street, Suite 250
San Francisco CA 94111
Voice: (415) 625-1000
Fax: (415) 625-1815
Text: Builds homes and community in partnership with thousands of annual
volunteers, hard-working families, donors, civic leaders and other
engaged community members in Marin, San Francisco and on the
Peninsula. The work supporters help us do provides a critical path to
financial security for families who live and work here and strengthens
neighborhoods across the Bay Area. Habitat for Humanity Greater San
Francisco has built more than 200 affordable homes in the Bay Area and
is currently building Habitat Terrace, a development of 28
single-family homes in San Francisco's Ocean View neighborhood, and
Mt. Burdell Place, a 10-home development in Novato.
Email: info@habitatgsf.org
Web: http://www.habitatgsf.org
Keys: community-building; grants / financial aid; homelessness; housing;
low-income; poverty
[Contact data last verified 16 Nov 2014]
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Name: Haight Ashbury Psychological Services (HAPS)
Address: 2166 Hayes Street, Suite 308 (near Cole and Shrader)
San Francisco CA 94117
Voice: (415) 221-4211
Text: In our community, psychotherapy is easily affordable for the affluent,
and publicly funded programs exist to serve the very poor. But between
these two extremes are many who do not have insurance and whose
incomes cannot quite meet the cost of psychotherapy. Haight Ashbury
Psychological Services (HAPS) was created to fill that gap, so that
everyone in our community can have access to quality professional
care. HAPS also provides superior training, education and supervision
for masters and doctoral students working towards licensure and a
career in mental health.
Email: staff@hapsclinic.org
Web: http://www.hapsclinic.org/
Keys: child abuse; counseling; mental health; services; therapy
[Contact data last verified 05 Nov 2016]
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Name: Haiti Action Committee (HAC)
Address: POBox 2040
Berkeley CA 94702
Voice: (510) 483-7481
Text: A Bay-Area based network of activists who have supported the Haitian
struggle for democracy since 1991.
Our members travel frequently to Haiti and are in close touch with
Haitian grassroots activists, legal and human rights workers, and
victims of repression.
Through demonstrations and civil disobedience, Congressional lobbying
and educational events, publications and community organizing, we are
working to build a strong Haiti solidarity movement.
Email: action.haiti@gmail.com
Web: http://www.haitisolidarity.net/
Keys: democracy; Haiti; networking; solidarity
[Contact data last verified 19 May 2018]
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Name: Hamilton Families
Address: 1631 Hayes Street
San Francisco CA 94117
Voice: (415) 409-2100
Text: Our mission is to end family homelessness in the San Francisco Bay
Area. Established in 1985, Hamilton Families is San Francisco's
leading service provider to homeless families, with carefully designed
programs to prevent homelessness, provide shelter and stability,
return families to permanent housing and support the well-being of
children experiencing homelessness.
Email: contact-us@hamiltonfamilies.org
Web: https://hamiltonfamilies.org
Keys: at-risk youth; children; family; homelessness; housing; low-income;
poverty; self-help; self-reliance; services; shelters
[Contact data last verified 18 Sep 2016]
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Name: Hands Off Venezuela (HOV)
Text: Opposes all forms of intervention by the U.S. government and its
agencies in Venezuela and works to:
Educate and raise awareness about events in Venezuela in order to
counter the bias of the mainstream media.
Build solidarity between American and Venezuelan trade unionists
and working people in general.
Web: http://www.ushov.org/
http://www.handsoffvenezuela.org/
Keys: intervention; media criticism; solidarity; Venezuela
[Contact data last verified 14 May 2016]
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Name: HandsOn Bay Area (HOBA)
Address: 1504 Bryant Street, Suite 100
San Francisco CA 94103
Voice: (415) 541-9616
Fax: (415) 541-7716
Text: Works with local nonprofits, schools and parks to identify
high-impact, group-based volunteer projects. These projects may meet
an ongoing need of an organization or its clients, or they may be
one-time, large-scale transformations of facilities or green spaces.
We recruit volunteers to get the job done and match each project with
a trained Project Leader to ensure that both the community partner and
the volunteers are satisfied with the work.
Email: info@handsonbayarea.org
Web: http://www.handsonbayarea.org
Keys: community-building; leadership development; volunteer matching
[Contact data last verified 01 Mar 2015]
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Name: HappyCow's Vegetarian Guide (California Section)
Text: A directory of vegetarian restaurants & health food stores in
California. (The general site is worldwide.)
Web: http://www.happycow.net/north_america/usa/california/
Keys: directories; food; veganism / vegetarianism
[Contact data last verified 11 Feb 2016]
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Name: Harm Reduction Coalition (HRC)
Address: 1440 Broadway, Suite 902
Oakland CA 94612
Voice: (510) 444-6969
Text: Founded in 1993 and incorporated in 1994 by a working group of needle
exchange providers, advocates and drug users. Today, we are
strengthened by an extensive and diverse network of allies who
challenge the persistent stigma faced by people who use drugs and
advocate for policy and public health reform.
Email: hrcwest[a]harmreduction.org
Web: http://www.harmreduction.org
Keys: AIDS / HIV; coalitions; drugs; harm reduction; needle exchange;
services
[Contact data last verified 05 Nov 2016]
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Name: Harvey Milk Gay Lesbian Bisexual Transgender Democratic Club
Address: POBox 14574
San Francisco CA 94114-0368
Text: San Francisco’s largest Democratic Club, known for both its
progressive politics and its independence.
We welcome, and are the same cultural radicals who joined the club
thirty years ago. This is a club for queers, dykes, transgender
people, people of color, sex workers, fat people, leather/BDSM people,
for people who don’t fit in the queer community easily and people who
don’t fit in their gender easily, for gay pride and gay shame. It’s
also a place for political radicals and progressives, who want to see
a different world for labor, tenants, working people, people of color,
and women.
Email: info@milkclub.org
Web: http://www.milkclub.org/
Keys: elections; government; sexual minorities
[Contact data last verified 01 Mar 2015]
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Name: Haymarket Books
Text: A radical, independent, nonprofit book publisher based in Chicago, a
project of the Center for Economic Research and Social Change.
Our mission is to publish books that contribute to struggles for
social and economic justice. We strive to make our books a vibrant and
organic part of social movements and the education and development of
a critical, engaged, international left.
We take inspiration and courage from our namesakes, the Haymarket
Martyrs, who gave their lives fighting for a better world. Their 1886
struggle for the eight-hour day – which gave us May Day, the
international workers’ holiday – reminds workers around the world that
ordinary people can organize and struggle for their own liberation.
These struggles continue today across the globe—struggles against
oppression, exploitation, poverty, and war.
Web: http://www.haymarketbooks.org/
Keys: book publishers; book sellers; history; justice
[Contact data last verified 19 Aug 2017]
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Name: Healing Waters Wilderness Adventures
Address: 167 Fell Street
San Francisco CA 94102-5106
Voice: (415) 552-1190
Text: Living with an illness can be very emotionally and physically
draining. The psychological toll itself is huge. Healing Waters
Wilderness Adventures exists to help its participants step outside
from all of that, if only for a short time. We offer incredibly fun
weekend and weekday trips open to people with HIV and AIDS.
Email: info@hwaters.org
Web: http://www.hwaters.org/
Keys: AIDS / HIV; outdoor activity; wilderness
[Contact data last verified 19 Jul 2015]
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Name: Health & Harmony Music & Arts Festival
Text: Harmony Festival served the Northern California Community by hosting a
cutting edge Music/Arts/Health/Eco Community Festival, at Sonoma
County Fairgrounds, Santa Rosa from 1978 to 2011, and drew over 30,000
people in 2011. The festival is currently on hiatus, in a “Cocoon of
Transformation”, and has the goal of returning again in 2015, in a
whole new way.
Web: http://www.harmonyfestival.com
Keys: crafts; ecology; festivals; health; multiculturalism; music; Sonoma
County
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Name: Health Access Foundation (Northern California office)
Address: 2000 Franklin Street, 3rd Floor
Oakland CA 94612
Voice: (510) 873-8787
Text: The statewide health care consumer advocacy coalition, advocating for
quality, affordable health care for all Californians.
As a coalition organization representing consumer groups, communities
of color, immigrants, people with disabilities, children, seniors,
women, people of faith, and organized labor. Health Access seeks to
connect grassroots organizing to policy work, on-the-ground
mobilization with savvy Sacramento strategy. Coalition member
organizations can count on Health Access for timely analysis and tools
so that whatever time and effort they have for health advocacy is
spent in the most effective way possible.
Web: http://www.health-access.org
Keys: AIDS / HIV; coalitions; healthcare access; low-income; seniors
[Contact data last verified 21 Apr 2017]
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Name: Health Care for All California (HCA)
Address: POBox 5833
Novato CA 94948
Voice: (888) 442-4255
Fax: (415) 884-9230
Text: Dedicated to achieving a universal health care system through
single-payer public financing. Our goal is that all California
residents will have access to comprehensive, high quality health
care.
HCA is a statewide non-partisan organization of volunteers. As a
501(c) 4 nonprofit organization with a 501(c) 3 education fund, we are
supported by membership dues, donations, and fundraising activities.
The HCA board of directors is made up of elected representatives from
regional chapters. We encourage all single-payer supporters to become
HCA members, and welcome creation of new chapters in under-represented
areas of California.
Web: http://www.healthcareforall.org
Keys: healthcare access; insurance; single payer health care
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Name: Health Initiative of the Americas (HIA)
Address: 50 University Hall - MC 7360
Berkeley CA 94720
Voice: (510) 643-1291
Text: A program of the University of California Berkeley School Of Public
Health (UCB-SPH) that was established in 2001. HIA draws upon the
multidisciplinary scholarship and the moral calling of UC Berkeley
faculty and students to produce new knowledge through action-oriented
research; teaching and mentoring; and service and community engagement
programs to reduce the health disparities of the less advantaged
Latino population in the United States.
Email: hia.ucb@gmail.com
Web: http://hia.berkeley.edu
Keys: healthcare access; immigrants; Mexico; policy; researchers
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Name: Health Professionals Advancing LGBT Equality (GLMA)
Text: The world's largest and oldest association of lesbian, gay, bisexual
and transgender (LGBT) healthcare professionals. GLMA was founded in
1981, as the American Association of Physicians for Human Rights, with
the mission of ensuring equality in healthcare for LGBT individuals
and healthcare professionals. Today, there is still considerable
ignorance about LGBT health issues, with many assuming that LGBT
health involves only HIV/AIDS. In fact, the full scope of the LGBT
health agenda includes breast and cervical cancer, hepatitis, mental
health, substance abuse, tobacco use, depression, access to care for
transgender persons and other concerns.
Web: http://www.glma.org
Keys: AIDS / HIV; health; human rights; magazines; sexual minorities
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Name: HealthRIGHT 360
Voice: (415) 762-3700
Text: Gives hope, builds health, and changes lives for people in need. We do
this by providing compassionate, integrated care that includes primary
medical, mental health, substance use disorder treatment and re-entry
services.
Web: https://www.healthright360.org/
Keys: AIDS / HIV; drugs; healthcare access; prevention
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Name: Heart of the City
Text: A creative direct action affinity group working with residents and
tenant rights advocates to fight tech boom-fueled real estate
speculation and displacement in the Bay Area. From our first
anti-gentrification spectacle at the 2013 SF Pride parade to our
historic Google bus blockades, our actions have helped spotlight the
eviction crisis and upend the myth of tech-savior trickle-down
economics.n at the 2013 SF Pride parade and will house future actions
and projects focused on fighting tech boom-fueled real estate
speculation and displacement.
Web: http://www.heart-of-the-city.org
Keys: development; gentrification; tenant rights
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Name: Heat is Online, The
Text: A web site based on the book 'The Heat Is On' by Ross Gelbspan
(Perseus Books, 1997). Continues to document the evidence for global
warming and the pervasive debunking campaign of the fossil fuel
industry.
Web: http://www.heatisonline.org
Keys: books; energy; global warming; petroleum; propaganda; public relations
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Name: Heinberg, Richard
Text: Richard is a Senior Fellow of the Post Carbon Institute and is widely
regarded as one of the world’s foremost Peak Oil educators. He has
authored scores of essays and articles that have appeared in such
journals as Nature, The American Prospect, Public Policy Research,
Quarterly Review, The Ecologist, Resurgence, The Futurist, European
Business Review, Earth Island Journal, Yes!, and The Sun; and on web
sites such as Resilience.org, TheOilDrum.com, Alternet.org,
ProjectCensored.com, and Counterpunch.com.
Web: http://www.richardheinberg.com/
Keys: analysis; books; corporate-controlled globalization; history;
newsletters; peak oil; petroleum; sustainability
[Contact data last verified 06 Nov 2015]
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Name: Hemp Industries Association (HIA)
Text: A non-profit trade association representing businesses, farmers,
researchers and investors working with industrial hemp. We are at the
forefront of the drive for fair and equal treatment of industrial
hemp. Since 1994, the HIA has been dedicated to education, industry
development, and the accelerated expansion of hemp world market supply
and demand.
The hemp industry has positioned itself over the past two decades to
once again become a major global economic force in the 21st century.
Hemp is one of our planet's most important natural resources, and we
advocate using it to its full potential.
Web: http://www.thehia.org
Keys: hemp; lobbying; policy; products; researchers; trade
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Name: Heritage Grain Alliance (NCHGA)
Text: Mission is to provide California's North Coast region with education
and support to build a sustainable local grain economy.
Our vision is a thriving, well-connected community collaborating to
ensure a robust regional grain economy. We support the exchange of
best practices to grow and use heritage grains, reflecting our diverse
culinary lineages. The NCHGA aims to bring back this thriving grain
economy through education, job creation, food sovereignty, sustainable
farming, and alliances between producers and customers.
Web: http://www.grainalliance.org/
Keys: agriculture; coalitions; food security; local economy; local food;
self-determination; sustainability
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Name: Hesperian Health Guides
Address: 1919 Addison Street, Suite 304
Berkeley CA 94704
Voice: (510) 845-1447
Fax: (510) 845-9141
Text: Beginning with the development of the classic Where There Is No Doctor
in the mountains of Mexico in the early 1970s, Hesperian Health Guides
has developed and distributed health materials now available in over
80 languages. We work with hundreds of partners who help us update and
field test materials to ensure they are accurate and easy-to-use. We
take all this work to scale with a paid staff of under 25 and an
ever-increasing number of volunteers, currently at over 200. Hesperian
is a 501(c)3 nonprofit and is supported by the generous gifts of
individual and institutional donors, as well as revenue streams from
the sale of books, resources, and digital tools.
Email: hesperian@hesperian.org
Web: http://www.hesperian.org
Keys: books; educational curriculum; healthcare access; poverty;
self-determination; self-help
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Name: Heyday
Address: POBox 9145
Berkeley CA 94709
Voice: (510) 549-3564
Fax: (510) 549-1889
Text: An independent, nonprofit publisher and unique cultural institution.
We promote widespread awareness and celebration of California’s many
cultures, landscapes, and boundary-breaking ideas. Through our
well-crafted books, public events, and innovative outreach programs we
are building a vibrant community of readers, writers, and thinkers.
Web: https://heydaybooks.com
Keys: books; writers
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Name: Hidden Villa
Address: 26870 Moody Road
Los Altos Hills CA 94022
Voice: (650) 949-8650
Text: A nonprofit educational organization that uses its organic farm,
wilderness, and community to teach and provide opportunities to learn
about the environment and social justice. Hidden Villa stretches over
1600 acres of open space in the foothills of the Santa Cruz Mountains,
about 40 miles south of San Francisco. Our mission is to inspire a
just and sustainable future through our programs, land and legacy.
Email: info@hiddenvilla.org
Web: http://www.hiddenvilla.org
Keys: classes / courses; open space; organic agriculture; sustainability;
wilderness
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Name: Hightower, Jim
Text: National radio commentator, writer, public speaker, and author of
Thieves In High Places: They've Stolen Our Country And It's Time to
Take It Back, Jim Hightower has spent three decades battling the
Powers That Be on behalf of the Powers That Ought To Be - consumers,
working families, environmentalists, small businesses, and
just-plain-folks.
Web: http://www.jimhightower.com/
Keys: books; editorial comment; humor; populism; radio; writers
[Contact data last verified 19 Jul 2015]
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Name: Hills Conservation Network
Address: POBox 5426
Berkeley CA 94705
Text: Latest news on the fight for rational and responsible wildlands
management in the East Bay hills.
Email: inquiries@hillsconservationnetwork.org
Web: http://www.hillsconservationnetwork.org
Keys: blogs; conservation; deforestation; municipal government; pesticides;
trees
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Name: HipHopForChange
Address: 2313 San Pablo Avenue
Oakland CA 94612
Voice: (415) 202-4817
Text: Uses grassroots activism to educate people about socio-economic
injustices and advocate solutions through hip hop culture. We raise
funds for local causes that enrich marginalized and historically
oppressed communities.
The mainstream music industry sells sexism, drug abuse, homophobia,
materialism, and gang violence as if these problems represent the
cornerstones of hip hop culture.
HipHopForChange seeks to address these injustices of representation
through education, community building, and the creation of a platform
for people who identify with Hip Hop culture to express their true
voices, selves, and culture. We create a space that emphasizes and
encourages the root values of Hip Hop culture: peace, love, unity, and
having fun.
Web: http://www.hiphopforchange.org/
Keys: community-building; fundraising; music; peace; unity
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Name: Hire-Ability, Inc.
Address: 1234 Indiana Street
San Francisco CA 94107
Voice: (415) 282-9675
Fax: (415) 920-6877
Text: A non-profit vocational services program partnered with San Francisco
Department of Public Health and California State Department of
Rehabilitation which serves the San Francisco Bay Area community by
connecting employers with trained, assessed and pre-qualified
employees.
We specialize in providing employers with a pool of employees that
reflect the diverse and multicultural population of the region.
Specifically, we assist employers in achieving their diversity goals
by matching them with qualified individuals with disabilities.
Email: office@hire-ability.org
Web: http://www.hire-ability.org
Keys: classes / courses; disabilities; employment; mental health;
self-sufficiency; services
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Name: Holy Land Olive Oil
Address: 2930 Domingo Avenue #122
Berkeley CA 94705
Voice: (510) 830-8804
Fax: (206) 203-0515
Text: Founded in 2003, Holy Land Olive Oil was started as a follow-up to an
all-volunteer project to help Palestinian farmers whose income has
been devastated by Israel's policies of closure and its prohibition on
the sale of Palestinian olive oil within its territory at the
beginning of the year 2000 Intifada.
Holy Land Olive Oil is proud to be the first to import Palestinian
olive oil into the US. Our mission is to create and sustain a
permanent market for Palestinian farmers - in spite of political,
logistical, and market economics/ pricing hurdles. For the olive
growers, your purchase of their product is an expression of support
that is valued a lot more than a handout.
Email: info@PalestineOliveOil.org
Web: http://www.palestineoliveoil.org
Keys: agriculture; food; Palestinians; products
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Name: Home At Last Rescue (HAL)
Address: POBox 2261
Berkeley CA 94702-0261
Voice: (510) 981-0890
Text: Over the past several years, significant strides have been made in
reducing the rate of dog and cat euthanasia all across the nation.
Home At Last Rescue (HAL) plays an active role in this "no-kill"
movement by rescuing animals from city shelters, providing temporary
foster care, and bringing these animals to the public for placement in
high-quality, loving homes. Historically, HAL has operated primarily
in the Berkeley area and has been instrumental in lowering the
euthanasia rate in the Berkeley municipal shelter from over 60% three
years ago, to under 20% this past year.
Email: info@homeatlastrescue.org
Web: http://www.homeatlastrescue.org/
Keys: animal liberation; animal shelters and adoption
[Contact data last verified 05 Nov 2017]
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Name: Homeless Action Center (HAC)
Address: 3126 Shattuck Avenue
Berkeley CA 94705
Voice: (510) 540-0878
Fax: (510) 540-0403
Text: Provides free public benefits advocacy to people who are homeless and
mentally ill in Alameda County. In addition to helping clients obtain
sustainable income and health insurance, HAC also works with community
stakeholders to reduce the harms associated with a lack of housing and
healthcare. Combining professionalism and compassion, HAC provides
barrier-free legal assistance to the hardest to reach populations.
Email: info@homelessactioncenter.org
Web: http://homelessactioncenter.org
Keys: healthcare access; homelessness; legal services; mental health;
welfare
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Name: Homeless Veterans Emergency Housing Facility (HVEHF)
Address: 10 Kirk Avenue
San Jose CA 95127
Voice: (408) 533-0228
(408) 533-0226
Fax: (408) 937-1402
Text: Uniquely combines emergency/treatment beds, transitional housing, and
supportive services (such as case management, vocational
rehabilitation, mental health and addiction treatment services and
housing assistance) in order to serve homeless veterans throughout the
Silicon Valley. We are a non-profit 501 (c)(3) organization that
receives partial funding from the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs,
as well as charitable funding from community organizations and
corporations.
Web: http://www.hvehf.org
Keys: homelessness; housing; San Mateo County; self-determination;
self-sufficiency; services; veterans
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Name: HOMEY ( Homies Organizing the Mission to Empower Youth)
Text: Works with young people from low income neighborhoods of San
Francisco, with a particular focus on Latino youth in the Mission
District. HOMEY’s guiding principal is to be informed and led by the
youth we serve, and all of our programs–from intensive case management
to violence prevention workshops to vocational training to community
advocacy– are staffed by bilingual and bicultural leaders who have
deep ties to the communities we serve.
Web: http://www.homeysf.org/
Keys: art; civil liberties; economic justice; environmental justice; human
rights; immigrants; indigenous people; Latinas / Latinos; low-income;
media; prevention; services; violence; youth
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Name: HOPE Collaborative (Health for Oakland’s People and Environment)
Address: 221 Oak Street, Suite D
Oakland CA 94607
Voice: (510) 444-4133
Fax: (510) 444-4819
Text: A collaborative of public agencies, community-based organizations, and
Oakland residents. Leadership bodies and individuals within the
collaborative work together to pursue our vision of a healthier, more
vibrant Oakland.
Email: sabrina@hopecollaborative.net
Web: http://hopecollaborative.net
Keys: family; food; health; leadership development; policy; sustainability;
youth
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Name: Horizons Foundation
Address: 550 Montgomery Street, Suite 700
San Francisco CA 94111
Voice: (415) 398-2333
Fax: (415) 398-4733
Text: A community foundation rooted in and dedicated to the lesbian, gay,
bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) community, and we exist to:
Mobilize and increase resources for the LGBT movement and
organizations that secure the rights, meet the needs, and celebrate
the lives of LGBT people.
Empower individual donors and promote giving as an integral part
of a healthy, compassionate community.
Steward a permanently endowed fund through which donors can make
legacy gifts to ensure our community’s capacity to meet the future
needs of LGBT people.
Email: info@horizonsfoundation.org
Web: http://www.horizonsfoundation.org
Keys: bisexuals; fundraising; Gays; grants / financial aid; Lesbians; sexual
minorities; transgenders; youth
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Name: Hospitality House
Address: 290 Turk Street
San Francisco CA 94102
Voice: (415) 749-2100
Text: Founded in 1967, Hospitality House is a unique peer-based organization
addressing the socio-economic disparities that impact people
struggling with poverty and homelessness. We provide a wide range of
services through six community programs that address emergency needs,
promote long-term stabilization, build community, and connect
residents to the area's unique artistic and cultural resources.
Email: info@hospitalityhouse.org
Web: http://www.hospitalityhouse.org
Keys: homelessness; poverty; services
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Name: Housing California (HCA)
Text: The voice in the state Capitol for children, seniors, families, people
experiencing homelessness, and everyone who needs a safe, stable,
affordable place to call home.
Since 1988, Housing California has been working to prevent
homelessness and increase the variety and supply of safe, stable,
accessible and permanently affordable places to live. Housing
California staff accomplishes its goals through education, advocacy,
and outreach.
Web: http://www.housingca.org
Keys: development; disabilities; healthcare access; homelessness; housing;
immigrants; people of color
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Name: Housing Consortium of the East Bay (HCEB)
Address: 1440 Broadway, Suite 700
Oakland CA 94612
Voice: (510) 832-1315
Text: Creates inclusive communities for individuals with developmental
disabilities or other special needs through quality affordable housing
in Alameda and Contra Costa County. HCEB fulfills this mission by
providing housing outreach and support services; developing affordable
housing, partnering with other nonprofit and for profit companies to
secure set-asides within larger rental communities; and owning and
operating special needs affordable housing.
Email: info@hceb.org
Web: http://www.hceb.org/
Keys: coalitions; disabilities; housing; mental health; services; technical
assistance
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Name: Housing Rights Committee of San Francisco (HRCSF)
Address: 1663 Mission Street, Suite #504
San Francisco CA 94103
Voice: (415) 703-8634
Text: Here’s what we do and offer:
Free counseling for San Francisco tenants in all types of housing:
rent-controlled units, SROs, public housing and Section 8, serving
over 5,000 tenants a year.
Organize entire buildings to fight against displacement and
evictions
Successfully change and support housing-related laws for a more
fair San Francisco
Help create building and community-wide tenants groups
Coordinate, plan and mobilize protests, actions and housing
justice demonstrations
Advocate for tenants in Section 8 and public housing
Sponsor workshops, community meetings and other events
Work with the Anti-Displacement Coalition, a network of tenant
organizations and allies to organize against the soaring evictions and
rent increases in our city
Email: info@hrcsf.org
Web: http://www.hrcsf.org/
Keys: counseling; housing; tenant rights
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Name: Human Rights and the Drug War (HRDW)
Address: POBox 21106
El Sobrante CA 94820
Voice: (510) 275-9311
Text: A multi-media project that combines the stories and photos of Drug War
POWs with facts and figures about the US Drug War, to confront the
conscience of the American people and encourage individuals to take
action for social justice.
Email: mikki@hr95.org
Web: http://www.hr95.org/
Keys: drugs; human rights; incarceration; photography
[Contact data last verified 20 Feb 2016]
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Name: Human Rights Watch (San Francisco office)
Address: 350 Sansome Street, Suite 1000
San Francisco CA 94104
Voice: (415) 362-3250
Fax: (415) 362-3255
Text: A nonprofit, nongovernmental human rights organization made up of
roughly 400 staff members around the globe. Its staff consists of
human rights professionals including country experts, lawyers,
journalists, and academics of diverse backgrounds and nationalities.
Established in 1978, Human Rights Watch is known for its accurate
fact-finding, impartial reporting, effective use of media, and
targeted advocacy, often in partnership with local human rights
groups.
Web: http://www.hrw.org/
Keys: discrimination; government; human rights; law; news on-line; watchdog
groups
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Name: Humane Farming Association, The (HFA)
Address: POBox 3577
San Rafael CA 94912
Voice: (415) 485 1495
Fax: (415) 485-0106
Text: The nation's most effective organization dedicated to the protection
of farm animals. Founded in 1985, and over 250,000 members strong, HFA
has gained national recognition and respect for its hard work,
integrity, and its highly-successful campaigns.
HFA's goals are to protect farm animals from cruelty and abuse, to
protect the public from the misuse of antibiotics, hormones, and other
chemicals used on factory farms, and to protect the environment from
the impacts of industrialized animal factories.
Email: hfa@hfa.org
Web: http://www.hfa.org
Keys: agriculture; animal liberation; health
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Name: Humane Society Silicon Valley (HSSV)
Address: 901 Ames Avenue
Milpitas CA 95035
Voice: (408) 262-2133
Text: HSSV has been connecting people and pets in the Silicon Valley
community for over 85 years. HSSV opened a 48,000 square-foot state of
the art Animal Community Center in 2009, a facility providing quality
adoptions, an impressive shelter medicine program, exemplary volunteer
and educational programs, as well as progressive behavior and training
programs to supply ongoing support to adopters.
Email: comments@hssv.org
Web: http://www.hssv.org
Keys: animal liberation; animal shelters and adoption; Santa Clara County
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Name: Humanimal Connection, Inc. (HAC)
Address: 27544 Canyon Road
Los Altos CA 94022
Voice: (888) 538-9402 (voicemail)
Text: Mission is to save the lives of homeless or neglected cats and
kittens, including those with significant medical needs, feral
tendencies, or scheduled for euthanasia by providing them with forever
homes. As a no-kill, not-for-profit, volunteer-run organization, the
Humanimal Connection is dedicated to addressing the unmet needs of the
cat population by connecting humans and animals together.
Email: info@humanimalconnection.com
Web: http://www.humanimalconnection.com
Keys: animal shelters and adoption
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Name: Humanist Hall
Text: See Fellowship of Humanity.
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Name: Humanist Workers for Revolutionary Socialism (HWRS)
Text: An organization composed primarily of former members of the
now-defunct Workers’ Voice organization.
We believe that in order to save humanity from the economic chaos,
social injustice, and environmental destruction caused by global
capitalism, it is necessary to abolish the capitalist system
altogether and replace it with a humane, democratically-run planned
socialist economy.
Web: http://www.humanistsforrevolutionarysocialism.org/
Keys: humanism; socialism
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Name: IBON Foundation, Inc.
Text: A non-stock non-profit development organization. We have been serving
the Filipino people through research and education since 1978.
IBON seeks to promote an understanding of socioeconomics that serves
the interests and aspirations of the Filipino people. We study the
most urgent social, economic and political issues confronting
Philippine society and the world.
Web: http://www.ibon.org
Keys: analysis; economics; Philippines / Filipinos; think tanks; welfare
[Contact data last verified 19 Jul 2015]
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Name: ICA Fund Good Jobs (ICA)
Address: 2335 Broadway
Oakland CA 94612
Voice: (510) 271-0142
Text: We invest in high potential businesses to create economic freedom for
those who need it most.
Since 1996, we've worked with thousands of dynamic, small businesses,
to generate revenues in excess $1 billion and have created thousands
of good jobs.
Email: info@icafundgoodjobs.org
Web: http://www.innercityadvisors.org/#ica
Keys: business; consultants; economics; employment; urban life
[Contact data last verified 19 May 2018]
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Name: ICCED - IT Services
Address: 1999 Harrison St., Suite 1800
Oakland CA 94612-4700
Voice: (510) 251-2600 x111
Text: We believe technology is an integral part of the success of any
organization. Through our capacity building role, the Insight Center
strives to assist other non-profits with today's technology demands by
providing affordable, discounted IT services.
Our IT staff has worked exclusively in the non-profit sector for over
7 years and information technology for over 25 years. We embrace the
goal of helping you carry out your mission by providing you a wide
variety of support from small office setup, desktop support, complete
system administration, network design and implementation, and security
services.
Email: blim@insightcced.org
Web: http://www.insightcced.org/our-services/technology.html
Keys: computers; consultants; services; technical assistance; web site
design
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Name: Idle No More SF Bay
Text: Inspired by the First Nations Idle No More movement, we are a group of
Native Americans and allies working together to create positive change
concerning Indigenous rights, the rights of Mother Earth, and the
rights of the coming generations to a sustainable and healthy
environment.
Idle No More SF Bay helps organize the Native American community in
the San Francisco Bay Area to attend the marches and actions that are
in alignment with our values. We have also conducted solidarity
actions with our First Nations sisters and brothers at the Canadian
Consulate, as well as organized actions at the many fossil fuel
facilities in the area.
Web: http://www.idlenomoresfbay.org/
Keys: Native Americans; sustainability
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Name: If Americans Knew
Text: The Israeli-Palestinian conflict is one of the world’s major sources
of instability. Americans are directly connected to this conflict, and
increasingly imperiled by its devastation.
It is the goal of If Americans Knew to provide full and accurate
information on this critical issue, and on our power – and duty – to
bring a resolution.
Web: http://www.ifamericansknew.org/
Keys: Israelis; Palestinians
[Contact data last verified 25 Apr 2015]
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Name: Immigrant Legal Resource Center (ILRC)
Address: 1663 Mission Street, Suite 602
San Francisco CA 94103
Voice: (415) 255-9499
Fax: (415) 255-9792
Text: A national nonprofit resource center that provides immigration legal
trainings, technical assistance, and educational materials, and
engages in advocacy and immigrant civic engagement to advance
immigrant rights.
The ILRC trains attorneys, paralegals, and community-based advocates
who work with immigrants around the country. We inform the media,
elected officials, and public to shape effective and just immigration
policy and law. Our staff works with grassroots immigrant
organizations to promote civic engagement and social change.
Web: http://www.ilrc.org/
Keys: classes / courses; immigrants; law; lawyers; leadership development;
legal services; policy
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Name: Impact Bay Area
Address: POBox 23831
Oakland CA 94623
Voice: (510) 208-0474
Text: Teaches effective boundary setting, personal safety, and physical
self-defense skills. Our classes are tailored to meet the needs of
different ages, genders, and communities.
Impact Bay Area is the only place where people can get practical
self-defense and personal safety training in a welcoming environment
regardless of age, physical fitness, gender, or weight. Our intensive
training gives students effective skills that will last them the rest
of their lives.
Email: info@impactbayarea.org
Web: http://www.impactbayarea.org/
Keys: classes / courses; self-defense; women; youth
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Name: Impact Fund, The
Address: 125 University Avenue, Suite 102
Berkeley CA 94710
Voice: (510) 845-3473
Fax: (510) 845-3654
Text: We provide strategic leadership and support for litigation to achieve
economic and social justice. We provide funds for impact litigation in
the areas of civil rights, environmental justice, and poverty law. We
offer innovative technical support, training, and expertise on issues
that arise in large scale impact litigation. We serve as lead counsel,
co-counsel, and amicus counsel in select class action and impact
litigation.
Email: impactfund@impactfund.org
Web: http://www.impactfund.org
Keys: civil rights; environmental justice; grants / financial aid;
litigation; poverty; technical assistance
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Name: Impact Hub Berkeley
Address: 2150 Allston Way, Suite 400
Berkeley CA 94704
Voice: 510-649-7700
Text: A membership-based, community space that connects local change agents
to resources that accelerate their impact.
Email: Berkeley@Impacthubbayarea.com
Web: http://berkeley.impacthub.net/
Keys: grants / financial aid; mentoring; networking; spaces for events
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Name: Impact Hub Oakland
Address: 2323 Broadway
Oakland CA 94612
Voice: (510) 858-2323
Text: Mission is to build an entrepreneurial community and coworking space
to create solutions for a world that works for all.
Web: https://oakland.impacthub.net
Keys: networking; spaces for events; sustainability
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Name: Impact Hub San Francisco
Address: 1885 Mission Street
San Francisco CA 94103
Text: A membership community of entrepreneurs, activists, creatives, and
professionals taking action to drive positive social, economic and
environmental change. Members have access to a local & global
community of change agents, coworking space options (including
amenities such as wifi, coffee/tea, privacy booths, printing & more),
frequent events, discounted event & meeting space rentals & more.
Visit 'Become a Member' to view full benefits & pricing. Impact Hub
San Francisco is a certified B Corporation. Being a B Corp
strengthens our resolve to achieve higher social & environmental
standards, and empowers others in our community to do the same.
Email: host@impacthubsf.com
Web: http://sanfrancisco.impacthub.net/
Keys: grants / financial aid; mentoring; networking; spaces for events
[Contact data last verified 05 May 2017]
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Name: In Defense of Animals (IDA)
Address: 3010 Kerner Blvd
San Rafael CA 94901
Voice: (415) 448-0048
Fax: (415) 454-1031
Text: An international animal rights and rescue organization dedicated to
protecting the rights, welfare and habitats of animals.
We are supported by a network of tens of thousands of determined
activists, dedicated volunteers, interns and donors. We work to expose
and end animal experimentation; protect wildlife and restore balance
in their natural habitats; end the exploitation and abuse of wild
species living in captivity, protect domestic and wild species
worldwide from abuse and slaughter for food, conduct cruelty
investigations and rescue operations, and provide veterinary care for
sick, abused and orphaned animals in our natural habitat sanctuaries.
Email: info@idausa.org
Web: http://www.idausa.org
Keys: animal liberation; Marin County; wildlife
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Name: In Search of Good Food
Text: This blog chronicles the making of the movie "In Search of Good Food",
as well as events and topics relating to the movie.
In Search of Good Food follows Antonio Roman-Alcalà¥‡, an urban
farming activist from San Francisco, on his search for the
"sustainable" food system in California.
The film attempts to answer the question: does the sustainable food
system actually exist? And if it doesn't, what is preventing it from
becoming reality?
Web: http://insearchofgoodfood.blogspot.com/2009/01/looking-for.html
Keys: blogs; film / video; food; organic agriculture; sustainability
[Contact data last verified 31 Jul 2016]
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Name: In These Times
Text: An independent, nonprofit magazine dedicated to advancing democracy
and economic justice, informing movements for a more humane world, and
providing an accessible forum for debate about the policies that shape
our future.
Web: http://www.inthesetimes.com/
Keys: analysis; economic justice; environmental justice; magazines; news
on-line
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Name: Independent Adoption Center (IAC)
Address: 2300 Clayton Road, Suite 1150
Concord CA 94520
Voice: (925) 827-2229
Fax: (925) 603-0820
Text: A compassionate and dedicated domestic open adoption agency. Since our
founding in 1982, the IAC has successfully placed over 4,000 newborns
with families in the United States.
As a nonprofit agency, the IAC is pleased to acknowledge the ongoing
corporate sponsorship of Google Foundation, Salesforce.com, and
Vertical Response.
Web: http://www.adoptionhelp.org
Keys: adoption & foster care; counseling; family; services
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Name: Independent Arts & Media
Text: A unique and growing fiscal sponsor for artists, journalists and media
producers. We support independent producers and projects that advance
our mission, by enabling independent producers doing non-commercial
work in the public interest to raise their own funding, and develop
and present their work on their own terms.
Our vision for fiscal sponsorship as a transformative “free speech
platform” comes from our own experiences as journalists, artists, and
media producers who needed better infrastructure for their
public-interest work.
IAM currently supports over 60 affiliates dedicated to non-commercial
work in media and the arts, including publishing, theater, dance,
music, visual art, film and video, journalism, history, and
public-events production.
Web: http://artsandmedia.net
http://www.newsdesk.org/
Keys: art; books; drugs; film / video; homelessness; journalism; labor;
media; militarism; music; networking; news on-line; noncorporate
economy; technical assistance; terrorism
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Name: Independent Media Center
Text: A network of collectively run media outlets for the creation of
radical, accurate, and passionate tellings of the truth. We work out
of a love and inspiration for people who continue to work for a better
world, despite corporate media's distortions and unwillingness to
cover the efforts to free humanity.
Web: http://www.indymedia.org/
Keys: corporations; media; media criticism; networking; news on-line
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Name: Independent Media Center, San Francisco Bay Area
Text: A non-commercial, democratic collective of bay area independent media
makers and media outlets, and serves as the local organizing unit of
the global Indymedia network.
We strive to provide an information infrastructure for people and
opinions who do not have access to the airwaves, tools and resources
of corporate media. This includes audio, video, photography, internet
distribution and any other communication medium.
We support local, regional and global struggles against exploitation
and oppression.
We function as a non-commercial, non-corporate, anti-capitalist
collective.
Web: http://indybay.org
Keys: collectives; media; media criticism; news on-line; noncorporate
economy
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Name: Independent Television Service (ITVS)
Address: 1435 Folsom Street
San Francisco CA 94103
Voice: (415) 356-8383
Text: The leading incubator and presenter of independent film, ITVS partners
with filmmakers to bring untold stories to public television and to
communities around the globe. We know that courageous storytelling can
create a better world.
Email: itvs@itvs.org
Web: http://www.itvs.org/
Keys: children; grants / financial aid; media; multiculturalism; television
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Name: India Resource Center
Text: Works to support movements against corporate globalization in India.
We provide timely information on transnational corporations to Indian
movements. We also educate and mobilize key constituencies in the US
and other countries to take action in support of campaigns in India.
India Resource Center is a project of Global Resistance. Global
Resistance works to strengthen the movement against corporate
globalization by supporting and linking local, grassroots struggles
against globalization around the world. Our goal is to ensure that
those most impacted by globalization are engaged in and at the
forefront of the movement against corporate globalization.
Web: http://www.indiaresource.org
Keys: corporate-controlled globalization; India
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Name: Indigenous Environmental Network
Text: Formed by grassroots Indigenous peoples and individuals to address
environmental and economic justice issues (EJ). IEN’s activities
include building the capacity of Indigenous communities and tribal
governments to develop mechanisms to protect our sacred sites, land,
water, air, natural resources, health of both our people and all
living things, and to build economically sustainable communities.
Web: http://www.ienearth.org/
Keys: coalitions; ecology; environmental justice; indigenous people;
sustainability
[Contact data last verified 14 May 2016]
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Name: Indivisible Berkeley
Text: Berekeleyans resisting the Trump agenda.
Web: http://www.IndivisibleBerkeley.org
https://www.facebook.com/BerkeleyIndivisible/
https://www.indivisibleguide.com/web
Keys: elections; national government; Trumpism
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Name: Indivisible Berkeley Students
Text: Cal Berkeley students, faculty and staff who want to use the tactics
presented in the Indivisible Guide to restore sanity to our nation's
politics.
Web: https://www.facebook.com/IndivisibleBerkeleyCal
Keys: elections; national government; Trumpism
[Contact data last verified 19 Jan 2017]
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Name: Indivisible East Bay
Text: Inspired by the strategies of the Indivisible Guide
(www.indivisibleguide.com), interested in starting a group for the
California's 11th, 13th, and 15th Congressional Districts.
Sign up for our email list here:
http://tinyletter.com/IndivisibleEB
Web: http://facebook.com/IndivisibleEB
Keys: elections; national government; Trumpism
[Contact data last verified 19 Jan 2017]
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Name: Industrial Workers of the World (IWW / The Wobblies)
Text: A member-run union for all workers, a union dedicated to organizing on
the job, in our industries and in our communities. IWW members are
organizing to win better conditions today and build a world with
economic democracy tomorrow. We want our workplaces run for the
benefit of workers and communities rather than for a handful of bosses
and executives.
Web: http://www.iww.org/
Keys: democracy; labor
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Name: inequality.org
Text: The premiere portal for the public at large, journalists, teachers,
students, academics, and any others seeking information and analysis
on wealth and income inequality. Ultimately, our mission is to help
end economic inequality in the United States and abroad.
Inequality.org is a project of the Institute for Policy Studies, a
think tank based in Washington, DC.
Web: http://www.inequality.org/
Keys: distribution of wealth; news on-line; research materials
[Contact data last verified 09 Aug 2015]
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Name: infoshop.org
Text: An online resource of news, opinion and information on anarchism and
many other topics. We are one of the oldest political websites, having
been online since 1995. Around 50,000 people each month use our
services and read our pages.
Web: http://infoshop.org/
Keys: anarchism; directories
[Contact data last verified 02 Feb 2018]
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Name: Inkworks Press
Address: 2827 Seventh Street (between Heinz and Grayson)
Berkeley CA 94710
Voice: (510) 845-7111
Fax: (510) 845-6753
Text: Inkworks Press has been recognized since its founding in 1974 as a
leading environmentally and socially conscious offset printer offering
a full range of the highest quality green printing services.
We print booklets, posters, postcards, flyers, brochures, business
suites, envelopes and more; all with vegetable oil based inks,
recycled paper and union labor.
Inkworks Press is organized as a democratically run worker collective,
associated with the Network of Bay Area Worker Cooperatives (NoBAWC,
pronounced “no boss”) and the United States Federation of Worker
Cooperatives.
Email: inkworks@inkworkspress.org
Web: http://inkworkspress.com/
Keys: collectives; printers; recycling
[Contact data last verified 21 Feb 2016]
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Name: Insight Center for Community Economic Development (ICCED)
Address: 1999 Harrison St., Suite 1800
Oakland CA 94612-4700
Voice: (510) 251-2600
Fax: (510) 251-0600
Text: A a national research, consulting, and legal organization dedicated to
building economic health in vulnerable communities.
The Insight Center envisions a nation where all people have access to
the resources, opportunities and support they need to help them
realize their potential and achieve economic security. We envision a
nation of individuals and families with sufficient income, quality
education, decent and affordable housing and health care, child and
elder care, a safe environment, and savings and other economic assets.
We see a society that recognizes the value, dignity and creative
potential of the overlooked and underappreciated. Success on this
scale will make us all richer and is the moral thing to do, consistent
with the values of our democracy.
Email: info@insightcced.org
Web: http://www.insightcced.org
Keys: children; consultants; economic justice; education; law; policy;
research
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Name: Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy (IATP)
Text: Works locally and globally at the intersection of policy and practice
to ensure fair and sustainable food, farm and trade systems. Pursues
cutting edge solutions that benefit family farmers, rural communities
and the planet. Our work extends from advocating for more democratic
and economically just trade agreements to advocacy for stronger public
health protections in chemical policy, to spearheading Farm to Head
Start programs.
Web: http://www.iatp.org
Keys: agriculture; genetic engineering; patents; policy; research; rural
life; science; sustainability; technology; trade
[Contact data last verified 19 May 2018]
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Name: Institute for Applied Autonomy (IAA)
Text: A technological research and development organization dedicated to the
cause of individual and collective self-determination. Our mission is
to study the forces and structures which affect self-determination and
to provide technologies which extend the autonomy of human activists.
Web: http://www.appliedautonomy.com/
Keys: appropriate technology; autonomy; leafleting; researchers;
self-determination
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Name: Institute for Justice and Democracy in Haiti (IJDH)
Text: We are a partnership of Haitian and US human rights advocates,
supporting the Haitian people in their grassroots struggle for a just
system of law, a society without violence, social justice, and a
democratic government.
Web: http://www.ijdh.org/
Keys: Haiti; human rights; solidarity
[Contact data last verified 21 Feb 2016]
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Name: Institute for Local Self-Reliance (ILSR)
Text: Mission is to provide innovative strategies, working models and timely
information to support environmentally sound and equitable community
development. To this end, ILSR works with citizens, activists,
policymakers and entrepreneurs to design systems, policies and
enterprises that meet local or regional needs; to maximize human,
material, natural and financial resources; and to ensure that the
benefits of these systems and resources accrue to all local citizens.
Web: http://www.ilsr.org/
Keys: decentralization; development; local economy; self-reliance; technical
assistance
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Name: Institute for Policy Studies (IPS)
Text: A community of public scholars and organizers linking peace, justice,
and the environment in the U.S. and globally. We work with social
movements to promote true democracy and challenge concentrated wealth,
corporate influence, and military power.
Web: http://www.ips-dc.org/
Keys: distribution of wealth; policy; researchers; think tanks
[Contact data last verified 09 Aug 2015]
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Name: Institute for Public Accuracy (IPA)
Address: 1714 Franklin Street #100-133
Oakland CA 94612-3409
Voice: (510) 788-4541
Text: IPA increases the reach and capacity of progressive and grassroots
organizations (at no cost to them) to address public policy by getting
them and their ideas into the mainstream media. IPA gains media access
for those whose voices are commonly excluded or drowned out by
government or corporate-backed institutions. As a national consortium
of independent public-policy researchers, analysts and activists, IPA
widens media exposure for progressive perspectives on many issues
including the environment, human rights, foreign policy, and economic
justice.
Email: institute[at]igc.org
Web: http://www.accuracy.org/
Keys: analysis; media criticism; news on-line; policy; researchers
[Contact data last verified 09 Aug 2015]
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Name: Institute for Responsible Technology (IRT)
Text: A world leader in educating policy makers and the public about
genetically modified (GM) foods and crops. We investigate and report
their risks and impact on health, environment, the economy, and
agriculture, as well as the problems associated with current research,
regulation, corporate practices, and reporting.
Founded in 2003 by international bestselling author and GMO expert
Jeffrey Smith, IRT has worked in over 40 countries on 6 continents,
and is credited with improving government policies and influencing
consumer-buying habits.
Web: http://www.responsibletechnology.org
Keys: agriculture; appropriate technology; biotechnology; genetic
engineering; health
[Contact data last verified 19 Aug 2017]
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Name: Institute for Transportation and Development Policy (ITDP)
Text: Works with cities worldwide to bring about transport solutions that
cut greenhouse gas emissions, reduce poverty, and improve the quality
of urban life.
Cities throughout the world, primarily in developing countries, engage
ITDP to provide technical advice on improving their transport systems.
ITDP uses its know-how to influence policy and raise awareness
globally of the role sustainable transport plays in tackling green
house gas emissions, poverty and social inequality. This combination
of pragmatic delivery with influencing policy and public attitudes
defines our approach. Most recently, ITDP has been instrumental in
designing and building the best bus rapid transit systems in the
world.
Web: http://www.itdp.org
Keys: development; global warming; policy; poverty; research;
sustainability; transportation; urban life
[Contact data last verified 09 Aug 2015]
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Name: Institute of Noetic Sciences (IONS)
Address: 101 San Antonio Road
Petaluma CA 94952
Voice: (707) 775-3500
Fax: (707) 781-7420
Text: A nonprofit organization dedicated to supporting individual and
collective transformation through consciousness research,
transformative learning, and engaging a global community in the
realization of our human potential.
We conduct, advance, and broaden the science of what connects us,
reaching new understandings about the nature of reality and our
extended capacities.
From what we learn, we create real-world tools that empower people to
apply conscious awareness in their personal lives, and in healthcare,
education, and business.
We host a vibrant community of explorers and change agents who are
working together to make a difference in the world.
Email: info@noetic.org
Web: http://www.noetic.org
Keys: community-building; discussion groups; education; networking;
psychology; research; science
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Name: Institute of Urban Homesteading
Text: A Home Grown Folk School of Urban Sustainability
Our mission is to:
Offer affordable classes in the art of living sustainably and self-sufficiently
in an urban environment
Help students forge connections with their food supply, their
community, and the natural environment
Inspire and enable a slower, more intentional, more sustainable
lifestyle
Empower students and communities by promoting self-determination,
self-learning, and self-reliance
Revive the lost arts of the garden, the kitchen, and things done by
hand through the teaching of heirloom skills and traditional
homesteading crafts
Web: http://www.iuhoakland.com
Keys: classes / courses; do-it-yourself; gardening; organic agriculture;
self-determination; simple living; sustainability; urban life
[Contact data last verified 19 May 2018]
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Name: Instituto Laboral de La Raza
Address: 2947 16th Street (near Capp, between Mission and South Van Ness)
San Francisco CA 94103
Voice: (415) 431-7522
Fax: (415) 431-4846
Text: For over 30 years, the Instituto Laboral de la Raza has served low
income families of California as a nonprofit advocacy and workers'
resource center. Headquartered in the Mission District of San
Francisco, the Instituto provides legal services, peer counseling,
financial education and access to a network of services to the
unorganized working poor. Most of our clients are unorganized working
poor immigrants from Mexico, Central America and South America.
Email: sshaker@ilaboral.org
Web: http://www.ilaboral.org
Keys: immigrants; labor; Latinas / Latinos; legal services; low-income;
services
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Name: Inter Press Service (IPS)
Text: Information is an agent of change. Since its inception, back in 1964,
IPS has believed in the role of information as a precondition for
lifting communities out of poverty and marginalization. This belief is
reflected in our historic mission:
“giving a voice to the voiceless”– acting as a communication
channel that privileges the voices and the concerns of the poorest and
creates a climate of understanding, accountability and participation
around development, promoting a new international information order
between the South and the North.
Web: http://www.ipsnews.net
Keys: development; news on-line; poverty
[Contact data last verified 14 May 2016]
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Name: Interfaith Coalition for Immigrant Rights (ICIR)
Address: 1814 Franklin Street #325
Oakland CA 94612
Voice: (510) 893-7106 x 319
Text: ICIR was founded in 1993, in the wake of the passage of Proposition
187, by California religious leaders from diverse faith traditions to
call together people of faith to promote the rights, fair treatment,
and dignity of all iimmigrants regardless of their immigration
status.
Rooted in the shared religious principles that all people have
inherent worth and potential regardless of education, national origin,
citizenship, or legal status, ICIR works for a healthy, inclusive
California where all people are welcome and have access to full
participation in the life of the community.
Since 1993, ICIR has organized among immigrant and faith communities
and led public education and advocacy efforts across the state of
California.
Email: dlee@clueca.org
Web: http://icir-clue.blogspot.com/
Keys: coalitions; immigrants; legislation; religion
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Name: International A.N.S.W.E.R. Coalition (San Francisco chapter) (Act Now
to Stop War & End Racism)
Address: 2969 Mission Street
San Francisco CA 94110
Voice: (415) 821-6545
Text: A coalition of hundreds of organizations and prominent individuals and
scores of organizing centers in cities and towns across the country.
Its national steering committee represents major national
organizations that have campaigned against U.S. intervention in Latin
America, the Caribbean, the Middle East and Asia, and organizations
that have campaigned for civil rights and for social and economic
justice for working and poor people inside the United States.
Email: answer@answersf.org
Web: http://www.answercoalition.org
Keys: Afghanistan; Arab Americans; civil liberties; demonstrations; direct
action; Iraq; Middle East; militarism; Palestinians; racism
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Name: International Action Center (Bay Area Office) (IAC)
Address: 1305 Franklin Suite 411
Oakland CA 94612
Voice: (510) 600-5800
Text: Committed to building broad-based grassroots actions opposing U.S.
wars abroad while fighting racism and economic exploitation of workers
at home. With every mobilization or campaign, the IAC strives to
connect struggles and bring together communities of color, women,
lesbian, gay, bi and trans people, youth and students, immigrant and
workers' organizations in order to build a progressive movement for
social justice and change.
Email: ActionCenter-BayArea@peoplesmail.net
Web: http://www.iacenter.org
Keys: demonstrations; immigrants; intervention; Iraq; militarism; poverty;
racism; sexism; sexual minorities
[Contact data last verified 02 Mar 2016]
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Name: International Bicycle Fund
Text: A non-governmental, nonprofit, advocacy organization, providing
information and resources promoting sustainable transport and
international understanding to make this planet a healthier and
happier place to live. Major areas of activity are non-motorized urban
planning, economic development, bike safety education, responsible
travel and bicycle tourism, and cross-cultural, educational programs.
Web: http://www.ibike.org/
Keys: cycling; development; sustainability; tourism; transportation; travel;
urban planning
[Contact data last verified 09 Aug 2015]
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Name: International Bird Rescue Research Center (IBRRC)
Address: 4369 Cordelia Road
Fairfield CA 94534
Voice: (707) 207-0380
Fax: (707) 207-0395
Text: A global leader in responding to man-made disasters affecting
wildlife, such as oil spills and marine debris. In addition to a
fully-equipped emergency response center in Alaska, Bird Rescue runs
two world-class wildlife centers in California which care for more
than 5,000 animals each year, including pelicans, herons, shorebirds,
and other aquatic species. This is made possible by over 60,000
volunteer hours per year kindly provided by a diverse group of
retirees, nurses, veterinary students, and others. To date, our
response teams have led rescue efforts in more than 200 spills across
six continents.
Web: http://www.ibrrc.org/
Keys: disasters; petroleum; research; wetlands; wildlife
[Contact data last verified 27 Nov 2016]
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Name: International Campaign for Justice In Bhopal (bhopal.net)
Text: A coalition that is comprised of survivors of the disaster,
international volunteers, and environmental, social justice and human
rights groups. Using education, grassroots organizing, and non-violent
direct action, ICJB works to hold Dow Chemical and the Indian
Government accountable for the ongoing chemical disaster in Bhopal,
India. Through empowering and advising campaigners in this worldwide
movement, ICJB strives to further the Bhopalis’ demands for justice.
ICJB is led by half a dozen Bhopal survivor organizations working in
close alliance with coalition members in India, Canada, the United
States of America, and the United Kingdom.
Web: http://www.bhopal.net
Keys: corporations; history; India; toxics
[Contact data last verified 16 Nov 2014]
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Name: International Campaign for Tibet (ICT)
Text: Works to promote human rights and democratic freedoms for the people
of Tibet.
Web: http://www.savetibet.org/
Keys: cultural survival; human rights; self-determination; Tibet
[Contact data last verified 09 Aug 2015]
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Name: International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN)
Text: A coalition of non-government organizations in one hundred countries
advocating for a strong and effective nuclear weapon ban treaty.
Negotiations on this new global agreement will take place at the
United Nations in New York in 2017.
Web: http://www.icanw.org/
Keys: coalitions; international law; nuclear weapons / testing; United
Nations
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Name: International Campaign to Ban Landmines
Text: A global network of non-governmental organizations, active in some 100
countries, that works for a world free of antipersonnel landmines,
where landmine survivors can lead fulfilling lives.
Web: http://www.icbl.org/
Keys: human rights; landmines; militarism
[Contact data last verified 18 May 2017]
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Name: International Center for Research on Women (ICRW)
Text: A global research institute with headquarters in Washington, D.C., and
regional offices in New Delhi, India and Kampala, Uganda. Our research
evidence identifies women’s contributions as well as the obstacles
that prevent them from being economically strong and able to fully
participate in society. ICRW translates these insights into a path of
action that honors women’s human rights, ensures gender equality and
creates the conditions in which all women can thrive.
Web: http://www.icrw.org/
Keys: development; leadership development; researchers; technical
assistance; women
[Contact data last verified 12 Nov 2017]
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Name: International Development Exchange (IDEX)
Address: 2120 University Avenue
Berkeley CA 94704
Voice: (415) 824-8384
Fax: (415) 824-8387
Text: Since its founding in 1985, IDEX has supported more than 500
grassroots, community-led projects in Africa, Asia and Latin America.
Annually, IDEX's partners serve approximately 1.2 million people in
impoverished communities, including marginalized women, small farmers,
indigenous communities, low-income urban residents, sexual and ethnic
minorities, and youth.
Email: info@idex.org
Web: http://www.idex.org
Keys: Africa; agriculture; Asia; Central America; community-building;
corporate-controlled globalization; development; direct action;
distribution of wealth; diversity; economic conversion; educational
curriculum; fair trade; global issues; grants / financial aid;
Guatemala; India; indigenous people; internationalism; land use; Latin
America; living wage; Mexico; Nicaragua; Philippines / Filipinos;
poverty; self-determination; sustainability; women; World Bank / IMF
[Contact data last verified 14 Jan 2017]
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Name: International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
Text: Seeks sustainable solutions for ending hunger and poverty. Founded in
1975, IFPRI is a member of the CGIAR Consortium, a global research
partnership for a food secure future.
Mission is to achieve sustainable food security and reduce poverty in
developing countries through scientific research and research-related
activities in the fields of agriculture, livestock, forestry,
fisheries, policy, and natural resources management.
Web: http://www.ifpri.org/
Keys: agriculture; analysis; developing world; development; hunger;
low-income; policy; poverty; researchers; sustainability
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Name: International Forum on Globalization (IFG)
Address: 1009 General Kennedy Avenue #2
San Francisco CA 94129
Voice: (415) 561-7650
Text: A North-South research and educational institution composed of leading
activists, economists, scholars, and researchers providing analysis
and critiques on the cultural, social, political, and environmental
impacts of economic globalization.
Unique in its diversity, depth, and breadth, the IFG works through an
active international board of key citizen movement leaders; a small,
dedicated staff; and a network of hundreds of associates representing
regions throughout the world on a broad spectrum of issues. Our work
is closely linked to social justice and environmental movements,
providing them with critical thinking and frameworks that inform
campaigns and activities on the ground.
Email: ifg@ifg.org
Web: http://www.ifg.org
Keys: coalitions; corporate-controlled globalization; corporations; limits
to economic growth; national government; research; writers
[Contact data last verified 09 Aug 2015]
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Name: International Indian Treaty Council (IITC)
Address: The Redstone Building
2940 16th Street, Suite 305
San Francisco CA 94103-3664
Voice: (415) 641-4482
Fax: (415) 641-1298
Text: An organization of Indigenous Peoples from North, Central, South
America, the Caribbean and the Pacific working for the Sovereignty and
Self Determination of Indigenous Peoples and the recognition and
protection of Indigenous Rights, Treaties, Traditional Cultures and
Sacred Lands.
Web: http://www.treatycouncil.org
Keys: economic justice; environmental justice; human rights; indigenous
people; Native Americans; self-determination; United Nations
[Contact data last verified 09 Aug 2015]
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Name: International Institute of Bengal and Himalayan Basins (IIBHB)
Address: 2509 McGee Avenue
Berkeley CA 94703
Voice: (510) 841-3253
Text: Works on water, environmental and ecological issues in Bengal Basin.
IIBHB also supports educational, health, housing and human rights in
Bengal Basin as well as in other areas where its services are needed.
IIBB hopes to use its Bengal Basin experience as a working model for
emerging economies. Founded by Dr. Rash B. Ghosh, a Bengali-American
scientist, the Institute has attracted a wide range of experts who are
ready to assist IIBHB in finding solutions to the various problems
that exist throughout the Bengal Basin. Dignitaries associated with
the Institute have included Nobel Laureates Linus Pauling and Glenn
Seaborg. The Institute is currently receiving advice from Nobel
Laureate Charles H. Townes, a prominent spokesman for Bengal Basin
issues. The IIBHB is headquartered in Berkeley, California, with
chapters in England, Bangladesh and India.
Email: IIBengalBasin@gmail.com
Web: http://www.nvo.com/ghosh_research
Keys: ecology; health; housing; human rights; India
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Name: International Institute of the Bay Area (IIBA)
Address: 1111 Market Street, 4th Floor
San Francisco CA 94103
Voice: (415) 538-8100 x206
Fax: (415) 538-8111
Text: Provides high-quality immigration legal services, education, and civic
engagement opportunities to immigrants, refugees, and their families
as they join and contribute to the community. With its eight offices
throughout the Bay Area that provide legal immigration and other
services, as well as through its collaborative efforts with local and
regional service providers, IIBA effectively serves immigrants and
their families. We offer immigrants the information and assistance
they need to understand and exercise their rights and
responsibilities. Because of IIBA’s services, more immigrant families
obtain stable immigration status in the United States.
Email: sfinfo@iibayarea.org
Web: http://www.iibayarea.org/
Keys: classes / courses; domestic violence; employment; immigrants; legal
services; refugees
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Name: International Labor Organization (ILO)
Text: The only tripartite U.N. agency, since 1919 the ILO brings together
governments, employers and workers of 187 member States , to set
labour standards, develop policies and devise programmes promoting
decent work for all women and men.
The unique tripartite structure of the ILO gives an equal voice to
workers, employers and governments to ensure that the views of the
social partners are closely reflected in labour standards and in
shaping policies and programmes.
The main aims of the ILO are to promote rights at work, encourage
decent employment opportunities, enhance social protection and
strengthen dialogue on work-related issues.
Web: http://www.ilo.org/
Keys: labor; policy; United Nations
[Contact data last verified 12 Nov 2017]
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Name: International Labor Rights Fund (ILRF)
Text: A human rights organization that advances dignity and justice for
workers in the global economy.
Our core work is three-fold:
1. We hold global corporations accountable for labor rights violations
in their supply chains.
2. We advance policies and laws that protect workers.
3. We strengthen workers’ ability to advocate for their rights.
Web: http://www.laborrights.org/
Keys: corporations; human rights; labor; policy
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Name: International NGO Campaign on Export Credit Agencies (ECA Watch)
Text: A network of non-governmental organizations and bodies campaigning for
ECA reform. Organizations participating in the campaign include bodies
working on issues related to the environment, development, human
rights, community rights, labor rights, and anti-corruption.
Since 1996, NGOs from many countries have joined forces in an
international campaign to reform ECAs. The goals and demands of the
campaign are best described in the Jakarta Declaration for Reform of
Official Export Credit and Investment Insurance Agencies, endorsed by
over 300 NGOs following a May 2000 international ECA reform strategy
session in Jakarta, Indonesia.
Web: http://www.eca-watch.org/
Keys: corporate-controlled globalization; development; export credit
agenices; government; insurance
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Name: International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War (IPPNW)
Text: A non-partisan federation of national medical groups in 64 countries,
representing tens of thousands of doctors, medical students, other
health workers, and concerned citizens who share the common goal of
creating a more peaceful and secure world freed from the threat of
nuclear annihilation.
Web: http://www.ippnw.org/
Keys: conflict resolution; health; nuclear weapons / testing; prevention;
research
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Name: International Rivers
Address: 2054 University Avenue, Suite 300 (at Oxford)
Berkeley CA 94704-2644
Voice: (510) 848-1155
Fax: (510) 848-1008
Text: Since 1985, International Rivers has been at the heart of the global
struggle to protect rivers and the rights of communities that depend
on them.
We work with an international network of dam-affected people,
grassroots organizations, environmentalists, human rights advocates
and others who are committed to stopping destructive river projects
and promoting better options.
We seek a world where healthy rivers and the rights of local
communities are valued and protected. We envision a world where water
and energy needs are met without degrading nature or increasing
poverty, and where people have the right to participate in decisions
that affect their lives.
Web: http://www.internationalrivers.org
Keys: banks; dams; development; networking; policy; water; World Bank / IMF
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Name: International Socialist Organization (ISO)
Text: Building a socialist alternative in a world of poverty, oppression and
war. Our organization participates in many different struggles for
justice and liberation today, while working toward a future socialist
society, free of all exploitation and oppression, and built on the
principles of solidarity and democracy.
We are a U.S. organization with branches and members in about 40
cities and connections to other socialists around the world. We
organize in the here and now against injustice and for reforms that
will benefit the working class and oppressed. These struggles are
important in their own right, but they are also building blocks for a
movement to achieve a socialist society.
Web: http://www.norcalsocialism.org
http://www.internationalsocialist.org
Keys: socialism
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Name: International Solidarity Movement (ISM)
Text: A Palestinian-led movement committed to resisting the long-entrenched
and systematic oppression and dispossession of the Palestinian
population, using non-violent, direct-action methods and principles.
Founded in August 2001, ISM aims to support and strengthen the
Palestinian popular resistance by being immediately alongside
Palestinians in olive groves, on school runs, at demonstrations,
within villages being attacked, by houses being demolished or where
Palestinians are subject to consistent harassment or attacks from
soldiers and settlers as well as numerous other situations.
Web: http://www.palsolidarity.org
Keys: Israelis; military occupation; nonviolence; Palestinians; solidarity
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Name: International Solidarity Movement, Northern California (NorCal ISM)
Address: 405 Vista Heights Road
El Cerrito CA 94530
Voice: (510) 236-4250
Text: The Northern California branch of the Palestinian-led movement
committed to resisting the Israeli occupation of Palestinian land
using nonviolent, direct-action methods and principles. Founded in
August, 2001, ISM aims to support and strengthen the Palestinian
popular resistance by providing the Palestinian people with
international protection and a voice with which to nonviolently resist
an overwhelming military occupation force.
Web: http://www.ism-norcal.org/
Keys: military occupation; nonviolence; Palestinians; solidarity; support
groups
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Name: International Women's Democracy Center
Text: Strengthens women’s global leadership through training, education,
networking and research with a focus on increasing the participation
of women leaders in politics, policy and decision making within their
own governments. By ensuring that women worldwide have the necessary
tools and skills to participate in all levels of governance, IWDC’s
commitment to work in partnership with local non-governmental
organizations (NGOs) around the world responds to the increasing need
of women leaders to acquire the technical skills and leadership tools
so critical to their leadership roles in the new millennium.
Web: http://www.iwdc.org/
Keys: democracy; leadership development; networking; policy; research; women
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Name: Interreligious Foundation for Community Organization (Pastors for
Peace)
Text: A multi-issue national ecumenical agency, which was founded in 1967 by
progressive church leaders and activists. For more than four decades,
the Interreligious Foundation for Community Organization (IFCO) has
assisted hundreds of community organizations and public policy groups
– by providing technical assistance, training organizers, making and
administering grants, and using our global network of grassroots
organizers, clergy, and other professionals to advance the struggles
of oppressed people for justice and self-determination.
Web: http://www.ifconews.org/
Keys: humanitarian aid; Latin America; religion; self-determination; travel
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Name: Intersection for the Arts
Address: 901 Mission Street, Suite 306
San Francisco CA 94103
Voice: (415) 626-2787
Fax: (415) 626-1636
Text: Plays a unique role in the development of the Bay Area’s rich,
innovative and diverse arts ecosystem by connecting people and
communities across physical, social, cultural, and economic boundaries
to instigate change. Through a platform of resources -- fiscal
sponsorship, incubation, professional development, technical
assistance, community gatherings, artist’s residencies, exhibitions,
and live performance -- Intersection fosters the advancement of the
Bay Area arts community by creating sustainable models for artists and
arts organizations that are critical in a rapidly changing world.
Web: http://www.theintersection.org
Keys: art; community-building; diversity; theatre
[Contact data last verified 27 Nov 2016]
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Name: Intertribal Friendship House (IFH)
Address: 523 International Blvd.
Oakland CA 94606
Voice: (510) 836-1955
Text: Established in 1955 as one of the first urban American Indian
community centers in the nation. It was founded by the American
Friends Service Committee to serve the needs of American Indian people
relocated from reservations to the San Francisco Bay Area.
Originally created as a community center, IFH expanded into social
services when staff became concerned about the lack of resources for
American Indian people as they faced the challenges of relocation from
reservations to urban communities such as Oakland due to the
displacement from their native lands.
Web: http://www.ifhurbanrez.org
Keys: Native Americans; services; urban life
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Name: IP Justice (IPJ)
Address: 1192 Haight Street
San Francisco CA 94117
Voice: (415) 553-6261
Text: An international civil liberties organization that promotes Internet
freedom, innovation policy, and balanced intellectual property
rights.
IP Justice participates in a number of international law and Internet
policy venues which impact digital rights including the Internet
Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), the UN World
Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), the UN Internet Governance
Forum (IGF), and other international treaty and trade agreements
addressing Internet policy and intellectual property rights. IP
Justice has held an accredited consultative status with ECOSOC, the
Economic and Social Council of the United Nations, since 2003.
Email: info@ipjustice.org
Web: http://ipjustice.org/
Keys: civil liberties; free speech; intellectual property; international
law; Internet; policy; property rights
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Name: iReuse
Address: 1050 North Gate Drive, Suite 550
San Rafael CA 94903
Text: Cutting financial and environmental costs can improve your bottom
line, and there’s no shortage of information about how to “go green”.
But with so many ideas, how do you know where to focus your efforts to
make the biggest impact? iReuse is sustainability made simple. We
provide you with a clear roadmap to achieve measured results, and are
committed to complete transparency in our process.
Email: info@ireuse.com
Web: http://www.ireuse.com
Keys: Marin County; products; reuse
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Name: Island Press
Text: Island Press began with a simple idea: knowledge is power—the power to
imagine a better future and find ways for getting us there.
Founded in 1984, Island Press’ mission is to provide the best ideas
and information to those seeking to understand and protect the
environment and create solutions to its complex problems.
Island Press’ three publishing program areas are:
Food systems, water, and health
Ecosystems, conservation, and biodiversity
The built environment
Our books tackle today’s major challenges, including: designing
livable, resilient cities with opportunities for all; ensuring
abundant fresh water; protecting the beauty and diversity of the
natural world; limiting the scale and impact of climate change.
Web: http://www.islandpress.org/
Keys: biodiversity; book publishers; books; climate change; conservation;
food; health; policy; science; water
[Contact data last verified 12 Nov 2017]
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Name: J Street
Text: Organizes and mobilizes pro-Israel, pro-peace Americans who want
Israel to be secure, democratic and the national home of the Jewish
people. Working in American politics and the Jewish community, we
advocate policies that advance shared US and Israeli interests as well
as Jewish and democratic values, leading to a two-state solution to
the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
Web: http://www.jstreet.org/
Keys: coalitions; conflict resolution; Israel; Jewish Americans;
Palestinians; peace
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Name: Jane Goodall Institute (JGI)
Text: We advance the vision and work of Dr. Jane Goodall to lead a movement
of conservation for the common good—one that builds on our connections
to each other, our fellow species, and the natural world we all share.
Following in the trailblazing footsteps of our founder, we inspire
hope through action, encouraging individuals around the world to join
us in taking care of the planet we call home. Whether we’re restoring
chimpanzee habitat, improving women’s health in a nearby village, or
working with our Roots & Shoots youth groups in nearly 100 countries,
we find practical ways to make the greatest lasting impact for people,
animals and the environment.
Web: http://www.janegoodall.org/
Keys: animal liberation; conservation; endangered species / habitat;
relationships; research; science; wildlife
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Name: Jewish Community Center of the East Bay (JCCEB)
Address: 1414 Walnut Street
Berkeley CA 94709
Voice: (510) 848-0237
Text: Provides a comfortable and warm gathering place for Jews wishing to
affirm their cultural and ethnic origins. Our members and visitors
represent all facets of the Jewish
community and many are unaffiliated with other Jewish organizations or
synagogues. All programs emphasize and celebrate Jewish values and
culture, and are open to everyone. Together, with an active Board of
Directors, our dedicated staff, and our strong and active volunteer
teams work together to build a strong community.
Email: info@jcceastbay.org
Web: http://jcceastbay.org/
Keys: community-building; Jewish Americans
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Name: Jewish Community Relations Council (JCRC)
Address: 121 Steuart Street, #301
San Francisco CA 94105
Voice: (415) 957-1551
Fax: (415) 979-0981
Text: A public affairs organization working on behalf of the Bay Area Jewish
community. It represents synagogues and Jewish organizations on
critical issues affecting Jews as individuals and as a community.
JCRC creates consensus and leads advocacy efforts in the organized
Jewish community, ensuring that our voices are amplified and heard. We
build bridges with other faith, interest and ethnic based groups that
share our passion for social justice, forging relationships based on
the issues our community cares about most.
Email: info@jcrc.org
Web: http://www.jcrc.org/
Keys: Jewish Americans; Jews
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Name: Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP)
Address: 1611 Telegraph Avenue, Suite 1020 (at 16th Street)
Oakland CA 94612
Voice: (510) 465-1777
Fax: (510) 465-1616
Text: Jewish Voice for Peace members are inspired by Jewish tradition to
work together for peace, social justice, equality, human rights,
respect for international law, and a U.S. foreign policy based on
these ideals.
JVP opposes anti-Jewish, anti-Muslim, and anti-Arab bigotry and
oppression. JVP seeks an end to the Israeli occupation of the West
Bank, Gaza Strip, and East Jerusalem; security and self-determination
for Israelis and Palestinians; a just solution for Palestinian
refugees based on principles established in international law; an end
to violence against civilians; and peace and justice for all peoples
of the Middle East.
Email: info@jvp.org
Web: http://www.jewishvoiceforpeace.org
Keys: economic justice; Israelis; Jews; Middle East; Palestinians; peace
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Name: Jewish Youth for Community Action (JYCA)
Address: 1300 Grand Avenue
Piedmont CA 94610
Voice: (510) 547-2424 x110
Text: An innovative leadership program dedicated to empowering Jewish youth
and contributing to social justice. JYCA forms a tight-knit group in
which every individual is respected and valued, everyone's ideas ae
taken seriously and enthusiastic participation is the norm. Created
and led by youth working towards progressive social change within a
framework of Jewish values.
Email: info@jyca-justice.org
Web: http://www.jyca-justice.org
Keys: community-building; Jewish Americans; leadership development;
retreats; youth
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Name: Jewitch Collective
Text: An organization of Jews, Pagans, and allies who draw on earth-based
magick to pursue tikkun olam (repair of the world). We celebrate
Jewish and Pagan holy days and participate in social justice
activities while connecting with ourselves, each other, and the earth.
We recognize that all beings are sacred, interconnected, and
interdependent. The magick we create draws on the divine mystery and
is focused on bringing forth healing-- personally, communally, and for
the natural world. How we each define "Jewitch" and "magick" varies.
Some may not even relate to these terms. We deeply respect
self-definition; whether about one's beliefs, identities, or
practices.
Web: http://www.jewitch.org/
Keys: collectives; interconnectedness; Jews; spirituality
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Name: Jobs with Justice (JwJ)
Text: Believes that all workers should have collective bargaining rights,
employment security, and a decent standard of living within an economy
that works for everyone. We bring together labor, community, student,
and faith voices at the national and local levels to win improvements
in people’s lives and shape the public discourse on workers’ rights
and the economy.
Web: http://www.jwj.org/
Keys: coalitions; economic justice; employment; labor
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Name: John F. Kennedy University (JFKU)
Address: 100 Ellinwood Way
Pleasant Hill CA 94523-4817
Voice: (800) 696-5358
Text: A fully accredited, nonprofit university offering innovative and
nationally recognized programs that will help you realize personal and
professional growth. Our collaborative learning environment will
challenge you to expand your intellect and prepare you to contribute
to your profession and community. Our focus on personalized attention
will provide you resources and support during your studies and beyond
as an alumni. And our practical approach to learning will enable you
to apply and refine your skills before graduation.
Web: http://www.jfku.edu
Keys: classes / courses; education; health; interconnectedness; law;
psychology
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Name: JoinCalifornia Elections Archive
Text: The largest online archive of California election results. We work
continually to keep our candidate biographies updated with current
information. Our records currently include state legislative races
since 1898 and statewide and federal offices back to 1849. This
information includes 14,022 candidates running in 25,447 races in 534
elections.
Web: http://www.joincalifornia.com
Keys: archiving; directories; elections; history; political parties;
research materials
[Contact data last verified 02 Feb 2018]
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Name: Joint Assistance Centre
Address: POBox 6082
San Pablo CA 94806
Voice: (510) 207-8560
Text: Mission is to provide assistance and support to community development
projects in South and Southeast Asian countries by providing
volunteers, funding, child sponsorships, scholarships, and educational
resources.
Email: jacusa@juno.com
Web: http://www.jacusa.org
Keys: Asia; children; development; grants / financial aid; India
[Contact data last verified 14 May 2016]
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Name: Journey Free - Resources for Recovery from Harmful Religion
Address: 638 Webster Street #210-B
Oakland CA 94607
Voice: (510) 292-0509
Text: A small group providing educational programs and services for
recovering from the effects of dogmatic religious indoctrination. We
are based in the San Francisco Bay Area where Dr. Marlene Winell, our
director, has a consulting practice and leads an online support group.
Our recovery retreats are held in this region and elsewhere.
Dr. Winell wrote the leading self-help book on recovering from
religious harm after working in and researching the topic for more
than 20 years. In 2011, she named Religious Trauma Syndrome or RTS a
form of chronic Post Traumatic Stress Disorder or “C-PTSD.”
Email: journeyfree.org@gmail.com
Web: http://journeyfree.org
Keys: religion; retreats; support groups
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Name: Jubilee USA Network
Text: An interfaith, non-profit alliance of religious, development and
advocacy organizations. We are 75 U.S. institutions and more than 650
faith groups working across the United States and around the globe.
We address the structural causes of poverty and inequality in our
communities and countries around the world. We focus on the following
structural issues:
Debt? and Lending
Tax, Transparency, Accountability and Corruption
?Consumer Financial Protections
Trade Policies
Preventing Financial Crisis and Austerity
Congressional Quarterly cites our work as one of the last bipartisan
efforts left in Washington. We are Christians, Jews, Muslims and other
faith traditions working to build an economy that serves, protects and
promotes the participation of the most vulnerable.
Web: http://www.jubileeusa.org/
Keys: coalitions; debt cancellation; finance; neoliberalism; networking;
poverty; religion
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Name: Juma Ventures
Address: 131 Steuart Street, Suite 201
San Francisco CA 94105
Voice: (415) 371-0727
Fax: (415) 371-1634
Text: Strives to break the cycle of poverty by paving the way to work,
education, and financial capability for youth across America.
We believe that the world’s greatest social service is a job. But a
Juma job is more than that. A Juma job socially engages youth and
teaches them leadership skills while building confidence for a
successful career. Juma serves as a launching pad to the real world.
Juma serves youth from low-income families who are in high school and
first in family to aspire to go to college (recruited in their
sophomore year), or out of school and out of work for the last 6
months (Opportunity Youth), aged 16-24.
Web: http://www.jumaventures.org/
Keys: economic justice; employment; services; youth
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Name: Justice In Nigeria Now! (JINN)
Address: POBox 11470
Oakland CA 94611
Voice: (415) 575-5521
Text: A San Francisco-based organization working in solidarity with
communities in Nigeria and allies in the U.S. to promote peace and
corporate accountability and to ensure that extractive industries
operate in a manner that respects human rights, protects the
environment and enhances community livelihood.
Email: info@justiceinnigerianow.org
Web: http://justiceinnigerianow.org
Keys: corporate-controlled globalization; human rights; Nigeria; petroleum;
solidarity
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Name: Justice Matters
Text: The nation’s only social and racial justice press run by people of
color for people of color. We publish books that elevate public
discussion and understanding of issues that matter to people of
color.
As an independent nonprofit publisher of books on social and racial
justice, we aim to be a hub of knowledge, ideas, and inspiration—a
place to produce compelling and engaging literature that take us to
new ways of thinking and bringing about lasting systemic change. We
believe that the voices and values of people of color are
indispensable to achieving a reflective and just democracy.
Web: http://justicematters.press/
Keys: books; people of color; racism
[Contact data last verified 17 Feb 2018]
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Name: JVS (Jewish Vocational Service)
Address: 225 Bush Street (West entrance), Suite 400
San Francisco CA 94104
Voice: (415) 391-3600
Fax: (415) 391-3617
Text: Transforms lives by helping people to build in-demand skills and make
connections to find good jobs.
With 40+ years of experience, JVS knows how to help people find good
jobs. We focus our programs on industries that are hiring and can
offer career path jobs, such as healthcare, financial services,
technology and trades. These Career Pathway programs are developed in
partnership with Bay Area employers and give people in-demand skills,
paid work experience and robust job search skills.
Email: info@jvs.org
Web: http://www.jvs.org/
Keys: employment; Jewish Americans; refugees; services; technology; youth
[Contact data last verified 12 Nov 2017]
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Name: Kahl Consultants
Address: POBox 4284
San Rafael CA 94913-4284
Voice: (415) 499-0838
Text: An Internet marketing and consulting firm offering a full spectrum of
small business and nonprofit services since 1996. We help progressive
organizations with mobile web, apps, email newsletters and social
media marketing. Our services include programming and design,
maintenance, content management (CMS), Search Engine Optimization
(SEO), Social Media Optimization (SMO), e-commerce shopping cart
development, and green hosting.
Our clients are social and environmental organizations that trust us
to use appropriate technologies to help them grow. Nonprofits benefit
from reduced rates and pro bono work (Environmental Forum of Marin,
Earth Island Institute and many more).
Certified Bay Area Green Business and Marin County Sustainable
Partner, Green America approved GOLD level. Co-host of the monthly
Marin Green Drinks business mixer in San Rafael, CA.
Web: http://www.kahl.net
Keys: business; consultants; electronic commerce; Internet; Marin County;
web site design
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Name: KALW
Address: 500 Mansell Street
San Francisco CA 94134
Voice: (415) 841-4121 (office)
(415) 841-4134 (studio line)
Fax: (415) 841-4125
Text: A pioneer educational station licensed to the San Francisco Unified
School District broadcasting since September 1, 1941 – the oldest
non-commercial FM signal west of the Mississippi.
After 75 years in service to this community, KALW is focused on
creating the next generation of public media, bringing new voices to
the air and reaching out to the diverse communities of the Bay Area.
Email: kalw@kalw.org
Web: http://www.kalw.org
Keys: education; radio
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Name: KALX
Address: 26 Barrows Hall #5650
Berkeley CA 94720-5650
Voice: (510) 642-1111 (office)
(510) 642-KALX (on-air DJ)
Text: Berkeley's community and student radio station, licensed to the
University of California at Berkeley, and proudly broadcasting at 90.7
FM in stereo with over 500 Watts of power.
Email: mail@kalx.berkeley.edu
Web: http://kalx.berkeley.edu
Keys: radio; students
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Name: Keep Albany Local
Text: A grass-roots organization of Albany residents and business owners
whose aim is to procure development in Albany that:
1. Establishes a strong and sustainable tax base where 60% of consumer
dollars spent in Albany, stay in Albany (when spent on local
businesses) as opposed to leaving (when spent on out of state
corporations, such as Whole Foods, Walmart, etc.);
2. Is in keeping with our climate action plan;
3. Protects the last remaining agricultural tract of the Gill Tract
from development; and
4. Does not negatively impact our local business community.
Web: http://keepalbanylocal.com
Keys: business; development; local economy; sustainability
[Contact data last verified 14 May 2016]
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Name: Keep Alta Bates Open
Text: A campaign spearheaded by National Nurses United to stop Sutter Health
from closing Alta Bates hospital in Berkeley, California.
Web: http://www.keepaltabatesopen.org/
Keys: corporations; healthcare access; hospitals
[Contact data last verified 06 Nov 2016]
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Name: Kehilla Community Synagogue
Address: 1300 Grand Avenue
Piedmont CA 94610
Voice: (510) 547-2424
Text: Started in 1984 by people who wanted a synagogue that would be a
spiritual home for politically progressive people who felt no
connection with traditional synagogues.
The core of this vision, and central to Judaism, is a spiritual
mandate to heal and repair the world by increasing social justice,
eschewing war and all forms of violence and aggression, caring for the
planet, and exhibiting loving kindness to all.
Web: http://www.KehillaSynagogue.org
Keys: Jewish Americans; music; religion; spirituality
[Contact data last verified 02 Mar 2016]
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Name: Kidango
Address: 44000 Old Warm Springs Blvd
Fremont CA 94538
Voice: (510) 897-6900
(800) 262-4252
Fax: (510) 897-6909
Text: Since 1979, Kidango has been firmly committed to the success and
well-being of each child and the family as a whole.
Today, we provide early education, child development and family
services in eleven cities and serve over 2,500 children in centers,
family child care home education sites and in their homes. Our
families represent the rich ethnic, cultural and economic diversity of
the San Francisco Bay Area.
Email: hello@kidango.org
Web: http://www.kidango.org
Keys: AIDS / HIV; Alameda County (below Oakland); children; domestic
violence; homelessness; services
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Name: KIDS for the BAY
Address: 1771 Alcatraz Avenue
Berkeley CA 94703
Voice: (510) 985-1602
Text: Teaches hands-on, environmental science to children and teachers in
elementary schools throughout the San Francisco Bay Area. At KIDS for
the BAY we implement effective, on-going environmental education
programs for elementary school communities and promote active,
hands-on restoration of local habitats. Our programs teach the latest
California State Science and Social Science Standards and have been
written into the School Wide Development Plans of our partner schools.
Email: mandi@kidsforthebay.org
Web: http://www.kidsforthebay.org/
Keys: children; ecology; educational curriculum; science; students
[Contact data last verified 09 Aug 2015]
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Name: Kijani Grows
Text: We are a farming technology organisation located in West Oakland
California.
We use aquaponics to improve life in urban and rural communities by
utilising traditional concepts, local materials and modern
technologies.
Our vision is to reduce disparities by addressing common basic needs
using aquaponic technologies and systems through education, job
creation and local food access.
Web: http://www.kijanigrows.com
Keys: agriculture; local food; rural life; technology; urban life
[Contact data last verified 19 May 2018]
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Name: Kitazawa Seed Company
Address: 201 4th Street #206
Oakland CA 94607
Voice: (510) 595-1188
Fax: (510) 595-1860
Text: The oldest seed company in America specializing in Asian vegetable
seeds. Since 1917 we have been the source for oriental vegetable seeds
for home gardeners, retailers, and commercial growers.
Web: http://www.kitazawaseed.com
Keys: agriculture; Asia; gardening; Japan; products; seeds
[Contact data last verified 23 Nov 2014]
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Name: Kiva
Address: 875 Howard Street, Suite 340
San Francisco CA 94103
Voice: (828) 479-5482
Text: Kiva is an international nonprofit, founded in 2005 and based in San
Francisco, with a mission to connect people through lending to
alleviate poverty. We celebrate and support people looking to create a
better future for themselves, their families and their communities.
By lending as little as $25 on Kiva, anyone can help a borrower start
or grow a business, go to school, access clean energy or realize their
potential. For some, it’s a matter of survival, for others it’s the
fuel for a life-long ambition.
100% of every dollar you lend on Kiva goes to funding loans. Kiva
covers costs primarily through optional donations, as well as through
support from grants and sponsors.
Web: http://www.kiva.org
Keys: finance; microenterprise; poverty
[Contact data last verified 17 Feb 2018]
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Name: KKUP
Address: 1275 Franklin Mall, PMB 9150
Santa Clara CA 95050
Voice: (408) 260-2999 (request line)
Text: KKUP is known as the 'people's radio.' Our purpose is to provide
views, music, and cultural diversity not found in mainstream media. We
feature local musicians, activists, poets and story-tellers both on
tape and live in-studio! You name it! If you can't hear it anywhere
else, it's probably on KKUP.
Web: http://www.kkup.com/
Keys: radio; Santa Clara County
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Name: Knowledge Is Power Program (KIPP)
Text: Mission is to create a respected, influential, and national network of
public schools that are successful in helping students from
educationally underserved communities develop the knowledge, skills,
character and habits needed to succeed in college and the competitive
world beyond.
Our Vision:
One day, all public schools will help children develop the knowledge,
skills, character, and habits necessary to achieve their dreams while
making the world a better place.
Web: http://www.kipp.org/
Keys: educators; low-income; public education; students
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Name: Koret Family House (501(c))
Address: 540 Mission Bay Blvd, North
San Francisco CA 94158
Voice: (415) 476-8321
Text: Serves as a home away from home for families of children with cancer
and other life-threatening illnesses by providing physical comfort and
emotional support, free from financial concerns.
A 501(c) (3) not-for-profit organization providing temporary housing
to families of seriously ill children receiving treatment at the
University of California San Francisco Benioff Children’s Hospital.
Qualifying families live more than 50 miles from UCSF, and many live
at or below the low-income status as determined by UCSF. Our location
sustains nearly a 100% occupancy rate and can accommodate 240 people
per night. Over the course of a year we serve more than 3,000
families.
Web: http://www.familyhouseinc.org
Keys: children; family; healthcare access; hospitals; low-income; services
[Contact data last verified 19 Aug 2017]
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Name: KPFA (94.1 FM)
Address: 1929 MLKing Way
Berkeley CA 94704-1067
Voice: (510) 848-6767
(510) 848-4425 (studio)
Text: The first community supported radio station in the USA. KPFA
broadcasts on 94.1 FM and KPFB 89.3 FM, Berkeley, and KFCF 88.1 FM,
Fresno, California. Our signal reaches one third of the state,
utilizing 59,000 watts. Much of our programming is local, original and
eclectic, with a well produced mix of news and in depth public
affairs, an ongoing drama, literature and performance series,
interviews, and reviews. Our music ranges from folk to hip hop, Bach
to Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan. We travel the region to broadcast live
music, demonstrations, and cultural events. The majority of our staff
are unpaid community volunteers donating their time and energy to
bring you our programming.
Web: http://www.kpfa.org/
Keys: calendars; news; radio
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Name: KQED, Inc.
Address: 2601 Mariposa Street (at Bryant)
San Francisco CA 94110-1426
Voice: (415) 864-2000
Text: Serves the people of Northern California with a community-supported
alternative to commercial media. We provide citizens with the
knowledge they need to make informed decisions; convene community
dialogue; bring the arts to everyone; and engage audiences to share
their stories. We help students and teachers thrive in 21st century
classrooms, and take people of all ages on journeys of
exploration—exposing them to new people, places and ideas.
Web: http://www.kqed.org/
Keys: radio; television
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Name: KUSF
Address: 2130 Fulton Street
San Francisco CA 94117-1080
Voice: (415) 386-5873 (386-KUSF)
Text: The University of San Francisco's online radio station.
KUSF as an FM station was known both nationally and internationally for its
innovative programming and approach to music. From 1963 until 2011,
KUSF was a student-run broadcast station owned by the University of
San Francisco. Following the frequency's sale, KUSF announced plans to
become an online-only station.
Email: kusf@usfca.edu
Web: http://www.kusf.org
Keys: multiculturalism; radio; students
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Name: KyotoUSA
Address: 741 B Addison Street (near 5th Street)
Berkeley CA 94710
Voice: (510) 704-8628
Text: Encourages the cities we live in and the institutions and people who
make up our local communities, to take real, substantive action to
address the causes of global warming and the climate disruption that
it causes. Collectively we can have an incredible impact!
Global climate disruption is the most serious threat facing the planet
today. Our failure to act will result in catastrophic and irreversible
consequences for all life on this planet.
Our primary focus is on the development of Community Choice
Aggregation programs in California and neighboring states.
Email: tkelly@kyotousa.org
Web: http://www.kyotousa.org
http://www.heliosproject.net
Keys: energy; global warming; municipal government; public education
[Contact data last verified 26 Nov 2017]
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Name: KZSU
Address: POBox 20190
Stanford CA 94309-0190
Voice: (650) 725-4868
Text: Stanford University's FM radio station, broadcasting across the Bay
Area on 90.1 FM and across the world at kzsulive.stanford.edu. We
exist to serve the Stanford community with quality radio broadcasts,
including music, sports, news, and public affairs programming.
Web: http://www-kzsu.stanford.edu
Keys: radio; Santa Clara County; students
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Name: La Casa de las Madres
Address: 1663 Mission Street, Suite 225 (between 14th and 15th streets)
San Francisco CA 94103
Voice: (415) 503-0500 (counseling and supportive services)
(877) 503-1850 (adult crisis line)
(415) 923-0700 (teen crisis line)
Text: Mission of La Casa de las Madres is to respond to calls for help from
domestic violence victims, of all ages, 24 hours a day, 365 days a
year. We give survivors the tools to transform their lives. We seek to
prevent future violence by educating the community and by redefining
public perceptions about domestic violence.
Email: info@lacasa.org
Web: http://www.lacasa.org/
Keys: children; counseling; domestic violence; education; prevention;
services; shelters; women
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Name: La Clinica de La Raza
Address: 1450 Fruitvale Avenue, Third Floor
Oakland CA 94601
Voice: (510) 535-4000
Fax: (510) 535-4189
Text: Since its beginnings as a single storefront operation in Oakland in
1971, La Clö€?Œnica has grown into a sophisticated provider of primary
health care and other services spread across Alameda, Contra Costa,
and Solano Counties. With a total of 40 locations including service
sites, support sites, and administration, we continue to expand our
reach in our community. La Clö€?Œnica delivers health care services in
a culturally and linguistically appropriate manner to most effectively
address the needs of the diverse populations it serves. In 2013, La
Clö€?Œnica served over 91,000 patients and provided 427,867 patient
visits. With over fourty-five years of experience serving the
community, La Clö€?Œnica is one of the largest community health
centers in California.
Web: http://www.laclinica.org/
Keys: healthcare access; Latinas / Latinos; mental health; services
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Name: La Cocina
Address: 2948 Folsom Street
San Francisco CA 94110
Voice: (415) 824-2729
Text: Mission is to cultivate low income food entrepreneurs as they
formalize and grow their businesses by providing affordable commercial
kitchen space, industry-specific technical assistance and access to
market opportunities. We focus primarily on women from communities of
color and immigrant communities. Our vision is that entrepreneurs gain
financial security by doing what they love to do, creating an
innovative, vibrant and inclusive economic landscape.
Email: info@lacocinasf.org
Web: http://www.lacocinasf.org/
Keys: business; food; immigrants; low-income; people of color; technical
assistance; women
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Name: La Pena Cultural Center (La Pena)
Address: 3105 Shattuck (near Ashby, 2 blocks from Ashby BART)
Berkeley CA 94705
Voice: (510) 849-2568
Text: A vibrant community cultural center with a national reputation and a
global vision that promotes peace, social justice and cultural
understanding through the arts, education and social action.
As a welcoming gathering place, La Peà¥¦a provides opportunities for
artists to share diverse cultural traditions, to create and perform
their work, and to support and interface with diverse social
movements. In addition to hosting concerts with local and overseas
bands, we also provide discounted meeting spaces for community
organizations, hold 17+ adult & kid's classes every week, and curate 6
separate gallery spaces. Email us with questions.
Email: info@lapena.org
Web: http://www.lapena.org
Keys: art; calendars; film / video; Latinas / Latinos; multiculturalism;
music; spaces for events
[Contact data last verified 09 Aug 2015]
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Name: Labor Archives and Research Center (LARC)
Address: J. Paul Leonard Library, Room 460 - 4th floor, SFSU
1630 Holloway Avenue
San Francisco CA 94132
Voice: (415) 405-5571
Text: Few regions can rival the rich, lively labor history of the San
Francisco Bay Area. This history is preserved in primary source and
vintage history materials at the Labor Archives and Research Center
(LARC).Founded in 1985 by trade union leaders, historians, labor
activists and university administrators, the Labor Archives is a unit
of the J. Paul Leonard Library at San Francisco State University. The
Labor Archives has an Advisory Board drawn from the labor, academic
and community leaders of the Bay Area.
Email: larc@sfsu.edu
Web: https://library.sfsu.edu/larc
Keys: archiving; history; labor; libraries; photography
[Contact data last verified 18 May 2017]
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Name: Labor Notes
Text: A media and organizing project that has been the voice of union
activists who want to put the movement back in the labor movement
since 1979.
Through our magazine, website, books, conferences, and workshops, we
promote organizing, aggressive strategies to fight concessions,
alliances with workers’ centers, and unions that are run by their
members.
Labor Notes is also a network of rank-and-file members, local union
leaders, and labor activists who know the labor movement is worth
fighting for. We encourage connections between workers in different
unions, workers centers, communities, industries, and countries to
strengthen the movement—from the bottom up.
Web: http://www.labornotes.org
Keys: books; democracy; labor; magazines
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Name: Labor Video Project (LVP)
Address: POBox 720027
San Francisco CA 94172
Voice: (415) 282-1908
Text: Labor Video Project has been producing labor TV shows and
documentaries since 1983.
Email: lvpsf@labornet.org
Web: http://www.laborvideo.org
Keys: communications; film / video; labor; television
[Contact data last verified 09 Aug 2015]
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Name: LaborNet (LaborNet)
Address: POBox 720027
San Francisco CA 94172
Text: A computer network that supports human rights and economic justice for
workers by providing labor news and information, comprehensive
Internet services, training and website design for union and labor
organizations.
Web: http://www.labornet.org
Keys: economic justice; labor; news on-line; technical assistance
[Contact data last verified 18 May 2017]
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Name: Lake Merritt Neighbors Organized for Peace (LMNOP)
Voice: (510) 763-8712 (Beth)
Text: Hosts weekly anti-war walks around the lake in Oakland. We meet at 3
PM every Sunday at the colonnade at the northeast end of the lake,
between Grand and Lakeshore.
Email: lakemerrittneighbors@gmail.com
Keys: demonstrations; militarism; peace; walking
[Contact data last verified 25 Apr 2015]
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Name: Land Stewardship Project (LSP)
Text: A private, nonprofit organization founded in 1982 to foster an ethic
of stewardship for farmland, to promote sustainable agriculture and to
develop sustainable communities.
LSP is dedicated to creating transformational change in our food and
farming system. LSP's work has a broad and deep impact, from new
farmer training and local organizing, to federal policy and community
based food systems development. At the core of all our work are the
values of stewardship, justice and democracy.
LSP has offices in the Minnesota communities of Lewiston, Montevideo
and South Minneapolis.
Web: http://landstewardshipproject.org/
Keys: agriculture; classes / courses; local food; national government;
policy; sustainability
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Name: Lao Family Community Development, Inc.
Address: 2325 East 12th Street
Oakland CA 94601
Voice: (510) 533-8850
Fax: (510) 533-1516
Text: Assists diverse refugee, immigrant, limited English, and low-income
U.S. born community members in achieving long-term financial and
social self-sufficiency. We encourage our community members to
establish goals, believe in themselves, and become active,
contributing members of society.
Web: http://www.lfcd.org
Keys: employment; immigrants; low-income; refugees; self-sufficiency;
services
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Name: Latino Coalition for a Healthy California (LTHC)
Address: 1225 Eighth Street, Suite 375
Sacramento CA 95814
Voice: (916) 448-3234
Fax: (916) 448-3248
Text: The only statewide organization with a specific emphasis on Latino
health. Founded in 1992 by health care providers, consumers and
advocates to impact Latino health by focusing on policy development,
providing enhanced information, and community involvement. Three major
functions provide focus to the organization’s work: public policy and
advocacy; community education; and health equity research. These
functions complement LCHC’s work in four key strategic areas: chronic
disease prevention, safe communities, health care access, and just
immigration reform.
Email: lchc@lchc.org
Web: http://www.lchc.org
Keys: coalitions; health; healthcare access; Latinas / Latinos; policy
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Name: Lavender Youth Recreation and Information Center (LYRIC)
Address: 127 Collingwood Street (one block west of Castro between 18th & 19th
Streets)
San Francisco CA 94114
Voice: (415) 703-6150
Fax: (415) 703-6153
Text: Mission is to build community and inspire positive social change
through education enhancement, career trainings, health promotion, and
leadership development with LGBTQQ youth, their families, and allies
of all races, classes, genders, and abilities.
LYRIC envisions a diverse society where LGBTQQ youth are embraced for
who they are and encouraged to be who they want to be. By working
towards social justice and supporting young leaders, their families
and allies, LYRIC is building a world that honors, respects and
appreciates LGBTQQ youth and their contributions.
Email: lyricinfo@lyric.org
Web: http://www.lyric.org
Keys: employment; leadership development; sexual minorities; support groups;
youth
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Name: Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence / Americans for Responsible
Solutions Foundation (LCAV)
Address: 268 Bush Street, Suite 555
San Francisco CA 94104
Voice: (415) 433-2062
Fax: (415) 433-3357
Text: The premier resource for legal expertise and information regarding
state and federal firearms laws. Made up of the foremost gun law
attorneys in the nation, the Law Center tracks and analyzes firearms
legislation in all 50 states, files amicus briefs in critical Second
Amendment cases across the country, and works with lawmakers and
advocates to craft and promote legislation that will reduce gun
violence and save lives. In 2016, the Law Center to Prevent Gun
Violence merged with Americans for Responsible Solutions, the
political advocacy organization founded by former US Congresswoman
Gabrielle Giffords and her husband, Navy combat veteran and retired
NASA astronaut Captain Mark Kelly. This merger builds on years of
collaboration between the two organizations and establishes a powerful
new force for gun safety legislation, education, communications, and
advocacy that stretches from coast to coast.
Email: info@smartgunlaws.org
Web: http://smartgunlaws.org
Keys: guns; law; legislation; policy; violence
[Contact data last verified 27 Nov 2016]
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Name: League of Creative Minds (LCM)
Address: 700 Airport Blvd, Suite 400
Burlingame CA 94010
Voice: (650) 548-5392
Text: Provides an entry way for high-ability middle school and high school
students into public policy, international world affairs, leadership
roles, public advocacy, diplomacy, investigative journalism, and the
inner workings of governments, international organizations, and the
United Nations.
The tools we utilize to accomplish these goals are the year-round
league classes where our approach creates deep conversations and
powerful human connections. Other tools include parliamentary style
intra-league debates, the LCM International Field Study program, an
internal professor/ambassador lecture series, attending select debate
conferences, participating in UN Briefings, and research in the field
at the local, national, and international level.
Email: directors@Lcmmun.org
Web: http://www.creativedelegates.org
Keys: education; leadership development; students
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Name: League of Women Voters of San Francisco (LWVSF)
Address: 582 Market Street, Suite 615 (near the Montgomery BART station)
San Francisco CA 94104
Voice: (415) 989-VOTE (8683)
Text: A nonpartisan, multi-issue organization that encourages the informed
and active participation of citizens in government. The League works
to increase understanding of major public policy issues, and
influences public policy through education and advocacy. We are an
organization of women and men who want to make a difference in the
political future of our communities. The important work of the League
of Women Voters of San Francisco is typically carried out by its
committees.
Web: http://lwvsf.org/
http://smartvoter.org/
Keys: democracy; elections; initiatives; speakers; women
[Contact data last verified 06 Nov 2015]
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Name: Learning for Action (LFA)
Address: POBox 411490
San Francisco CA 94141-1490
Voice: (415) 392-2850
Fax: (415) 392-2856
Text: Supports learning for action to maximize impact and sustainability
among social sector organizations.
Learning for Action is building the evaluation capacity of READ Global
to help them measure the impact of their Community Library and
Resource Centers in Nepal, India, and Bhutan.
Web: http://www.lfagroup.com
Keys: consultants; research; technical assistance
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Name: Left Turn
Text: A national network of activists engaged in exposing and fighting the
consequences of global capitalism and imperialism. Rooted in a variety
of social movements, we are anti-capitalists, radical feminists,
anti-racists, queer and trans- liberationists, and anti-imperialists
working to build resistance and alternatives to corporate power and
empire.
Web: http://www.leftturn.org/
Keys: capitalism; corporate-controlled globalization; imperialism; labor;
militarism; networking
[Contact data last verified 02 Mar 2016]
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Name: Legal Aid of Marin
Address: 30 North San Pedro Road, Suite 220
San Rafael CA 94903
Voice: (415) 492-0230
Fax: (415) 492-0947
Text: Mission is to provide access to the civil justice system to
low-income, vulnerable and otherwise underserved residents of Marin
County. We strive for practical solutions to client problems through
quality legal service.
Web: http://www.legalaidmarin.org
Keys: consumer protection; domestic violence; legal services; low-income;
Marin County; prevention; seniors; tenant rights; welfare
[Contact data last verified 26 Nov 2017]
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Name: Legal Aid Society - Employment Law Center (LAS-ELC)
Address: 180 Montgomery Street, Suite 600
San Francisco CA 94104
Voice: (415) 864-8848
Fax: (415) 593-0096
Text: Promotes the stability of low-income and disadvantaged workers and
their families by addressing issues that affect their ability to
achieve self-sufficiency. Using the law as a tool, LAS–ELC helps
workers attain financial security by preserving their employment
opportunities. We believe that stable working conditions and adequate
income strengthen families and build communities. By protecting the
employment status of wage earners, we provide families the means to
pull through adverse times, avoid the downward spiral caused by job
loss and be fully contributing members of society.
Web: http://www.las-elc.org
Keys: employment; law; legal services; legislation; lobbying; low-income
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Name: Legal Services for Prisoners with Children (LSPC)
Address: 1540 Market Street, Suite 490
San Francisco CA 94102
Voice: (415) 255-7036
Fax: (415) 552-3150
Text: Organizes communities impacted by the criminal justice system and
advocates to release incarcerated people, to restore human and civil
rights and to reunify families and communities. We build public
awareness of structural racism in policing, the courts and prison
system and we advance racial and gender justice in all our work.
Our strategies include legal support, trainings, advocacy, public
education, grassroots mobilization and developing community
partnerships.
Web: http://www.prisonerswithchildren.org/
Keys: children; civil rights; family; incarceration; legal services;
litigation; technical assistance; women
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Name: LevelBar
Address: c/o Leah Johnston
POBox 23094
Oakland CA 94623
Voice: (510) 214-2694
Text: A San Francisco Bay Area non-profit dedicated to increasing
opportunity in law school education. We currently provide a year-long
pre-law preparation program--LevelBar Scholars--to motivated students
in the Bay Area who are preparing to apply to law school. The program
includes a scholarship for LSAT study.
Our support of our students extends beyond just a grant; we are
committed to helping our students all the way through the admissions
process, and to setting them up for success in their school and
ultimately in their field. We provide a series of workshops, writing
classes, and ongoing mentorship and support to our grantees.
Email: info@levelbar.org
Web: http://www.levelbar.org
Keys: classes / courses; education; grants / financial aid; low-income;
mentoring; students
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Name: LGBTQ Youth Space
Address: 452 South First Street
San Jose CA 95113
Voice: (408) 343-7940
Text: We are a community drop-in center and mental health program for
lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, questioning and ally youth
and young adults ages 13-25 who live in Santa Clara County. Our space
is open 3pm-9pm Monday through Friday.
Our staff and participant advisors offer a safe and confidential space
to hang out with:
support groups,
art workshops,
activism and leadership opportunities,
movie nights,
field trips,
open mic nights,
volunteer opportunities,
free snacks,
internet access,
video games,
safe sex supplies/condoms,
connections to any resources you might need, and
monthly health van visits.
Email: youthspace@fcservices.org
Web: http://youthspace.org
Keys: bisexuals; counseling; Gays; leadership development; Lesbians; Santa
Clara County; sexual minorities; support groups; transgenders; youth
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Name: Liberation Institute, The
Address: POBox 411502
San Francisco CA 94141-1502
Voice: (415) 606-5296 x102
Text: A grassroots nonprofit community organization created by a group of
creative counselors, therapists, social workers, and community
activists. Our aim is to fill in what we see as gaps in the
availability of easily accessible professional support for issues
related to mental and emotional wellness.
We strive daily to meet that mission with a fresh, open minded,
compassionate, diverse, and creative approach.
Email: info@liberationinstitute.org
Web: http://www.liberationinstitute.org
Keys: addiction; low-income; sexual minorities; therapy
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Name: LifeMoves
Address: 181 Constitution Drive
Menlo Park CA 94025
Voice: (650) 685-5880
Fax: (650) 685-5881
Text: With more than 40 years of service and experience in successfully
serving homeless families and individuals, LifeMoves is the largest
and most effective nonprofit committed to ending the cycle of
homelessness for families and individuals in San Mateo and Santa Clara
Counties. Our successful and multi-faceted therapeutic service model
combines clean, modern housing with intensive supportive services that
promote dignity and respectfully motivate our clients to achieve
autonomy.
Web: http://lifemoves.org
Keys: at-risk youth; domestic violence; homelessness; housing; Santa Clara
County; services; shelters
[Contact data last verified 19 Aug 2017]
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Name: LinkTV
Text: Broadcasts programs that engage, educate and activate viewers to
become involved in the world. Founded in 1999, Link TV provides a
unique perspective on international news, current events, and diverse
cultures, presenting issues not often covered in the US media. We
connect American viewers with people at the heart of breaking events,
organizations in the forefront of social change and the cultures of an
increasingly global community.
Email: feedback@linktv.org
Web: http://www.linktv.org
Keys: global community; news; television
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Name: Lippman, Dave
Text: Dave Lippman is widely known on many coasts and in some interiors for
his sharp send-ups of topical subjects ranging from weapons of mass
distraction to SUVs and the wars to defend them. He has toured widely
in the United States, Europe, Australia, and Central America in a
35-year musical career that has brought him respect, laughter, and
occasional plaudits as a top-notch documentary songmaker. His
specialty genres range from clever tirade to unsingable singalong.
Web: http://www.davelippman.com
Keys: humor; militarism; music
[Contact data last verified 30 Aug 2015]
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Name: Literacy for Environmental Justice (LEJ)
Address: 909 Florida Street
San Francisco CA 94110
Voice: (415) 282-6840
Fax: (866) 909-9466
Text: Mission is to foster an understanding of the principles of
environmental justice and urban sustainability in our young people in
order to promote the long-term health of our communities.
We provide paid internships to Bayview Hunters Point youth in
environmental health, natural ecology, and food security, and we offer
free hands-on environmental educational programs to schools, colleges
and youth programs.
Email: staff@lejyouth.org
Web: http://www.lejyouth.org/
Keys: environmental justice; literacy; urban life; youth
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Name: Little People of America, San Francisco Bay Area Chapter (LPA)
Text: Dedicated to improving the quality of life for people with dwarfism
throughout their lives while celebrating with great pride Little
People’s contribution to social diversity. LPA strives to bring
solutions and global awareness to the prominent issues affecting
individuals of short stature and their families.
Web: http://www.lpabayarea.org/SFBAC_home.html
Keys: sizism; support groups
[Contact data last verified 06 Aug 2016]
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Name: Live Power Community Farm
Address: 25451 East Lane
Covelo CA 95428
Voice: (707) 983-8196
Text: A 50-acre, solar electric and horse-powered, diversified, certified
biodynamic farm. Four acres are devoted to an intensive vegetable
garden hosting some 60 varieties of vegetables and herbs. We use a
glasshouse and cold frames to propagate vegetable and flower
transplants, and grow home orchard fruits and field and forage crops
for hay, grain, and pasture. Animal husbandry includes draft horses,
dairy and beef cows, feeder pigs, sheep, and laying hens. We butcher
and process meat animals, and bake bread in our outdoor, wood-fired
brick oven.
Web: http://livepower.org
Keys: classes / courses; Community Supported Agriculture; Mendocino County;
organic agriculture
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Name: Local Clean Energy Alliance of the East Bay
Address: 436 14th Street #1216
Oakland CA 94612
Voice: (510) 834-0420
Text: We are the Bay Area’s largest clean energy coalition, with 90
affiliated member organizations, working for a clean energy future in
the Bay Area. The Local Clean Energy Alliance sees the development of
local energy resources as key to creating sustainable business,
advancing social equity, and promoting community resilience.
Email: lcea-info@baylocalize.org
Web: http://www.localcleanenergy.org/
Keys: coalitions; development; law; renewable energy
[Contact data last verified 06 Nov 2015]
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Name: Local Greens Farm
Address: 10th Street @ Gilman
Berkeley CA 94710
Voice: (510) 541-3300
Text: An urban farm based on controlled environment agriculture (CEA) now
launching the first facility in Berkeley, CA. Our mission is to
revolutionize how we feed ourselves. We do this through sustainably
growing high quantities of fresh healthy foods just down the road from
where the food will be served or sold to our communities. We are
bringing local farming right into your neighborhood in a way that goes
beyond conventional farming and even hydroponics - we use no soil,
minimal water, low energy - using specialized growing techniques that
mimic nature.
Email: faye@local-greens.com
Web: http://www.local-greens.com/
Keys: local food; organic agriculture; urban life; water
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Name: Local Harvest
Text: Connects people looking for good food with the farmers who produce
it.
Buying local is about enjoying real food, grown yourself or purchased
from people you trust. It's about developing strong local economies
and producing food on a human scale. It's about eating seasonally,
practicing the art of cooking, and sitting down to enjoy meals
together. It requires ample local and regional producers, processors,
and distributors. As we see it, the goal of the local food movement is
to create thriving community-based food systems that will make high
quality local food available to everyone.
To that end, LocalHarvest makes millions of introductions a year. Hear
what some of our members have to say about us.
We make it easy to find good food.
Web: http://www.localharvest.org
Keys: agriculture; directories; farmers markets; local economy; local food;
networking
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Name: Local Initiatives Support Corporation (LISC)
Text: One of the largest organizations supporting projects to revitalize
communities and bring greater economic opportunity to residents. These
include more affordable housing, better schools, safer streets,
growing businesses and programs that improve the financial outlook of
people. We provide the capital, strategy and know-how to local
partners to get this done. Our work impacts 7 million low-income
Americans in both rural areas and urban centers across the country.
Web: http://www.lisc.org
Keys: community-building; housing; local economy; low-income; urban life
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Name: Local Works
Address: 531 Fifth Street
Santa Rosa CA 95401
Voice: (707) 583-7667
(707) 331-6850 (cell)
Text: A new Flexible Purpose Corporation. Our purpose is to support small
businesses to...
accelerate localization
increase community resiliency
stimulate local and regional job development, and
create a better world
We promote the positive well-being of our employees, suppliers,
customers, creditors, the community and the environment.
Email: info@shareexchange.coop
Web: http://www.shareexchange.coop/
Keys: business; local economy; Sonoma County
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Name: Long Haul Infoshop
Address: 3124 Shattuck Avenue (near Woolsey; two blocks from Ashby BART)
Berkeley CA 94705
Voice: (510) 540-0751
Text: An anarchist resource center and community space. Our goal is to
provide the shell for a space that feels alive with people, projects,
and ideas (whether in concert or conflict)–where together we negotiate
a tension with society.
We provide an office/meeting space and a non-profit umbrella for a
variety of projects/collectives, as well as hosting for numerous
social and political events. We also house the Infoshop .
The Infoshop is a combination of a lending library, computer room,
zine making space, activist reading room, and a social gathering
space.
Web: http://www.thelonghaul.org/
Keys: anarchism; archiving; community-building; Internet; libraries;
networking; products; research materials; spaces for events; T-shirts
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Name: Lyon-Martin Health Services
Address: 1748 Market Street, Suite 201
San Francisco CA 94102
Voice: (415) 565-7667
Fax: (415) 252-7512
Text: Provides excellent health care to women, lesbians and transgender
people in a safe and compassionate environment, with sensitivity to
sexual orientation and gender identity; all services are regardless of
ability to pay.
Founded in 1979, by a group of medical providers and health activists
as a clinic for lesbians who lacked access to nonjudgmental,
affordable health care, the clinic soon became a model for culturally
sensitive community-based health care. The clinic was named after
Phyllis Lyon and Del Martin, feminists and well-known LGBTQ civil
rights activists.
Email: info@lyon-martin.org
Web: http://www.lyon-martin.org/
Keys: AIDS / HIV; healthcare access; Lesbians; low-income; mental health;
services; women
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Name: Making Change at Walmart
Text: A campaign challenging Walmart to help rebuild our economy and
strengthen working families. Anchored by the United Food & Commercial
Workers (UFCW), we are a coalition of Walmart associates, union
members, small business owners, religious leaders, community
organizations, women’s advocacy groups, multi-ethnic coalitions,
elected officials and ordinary citizens who believe that changing
Walmart is vital for the future of our country.
Web: http://makingchangeatwalmart.org
Keys: corporations; labor; watchdog groups
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Name: Making Contact (International Media Project)
Address: 1714 Franklin Street #100-251
Oakland CA 94612
Voice: (510) 459-8558
Text: An independent, non-profit organization committed to community
journalism, in-depth critical analysis, the promotion of civic
participation and the dissemination of educational material.
Making Contact produces media that analyses critical social, political
and environmental issues and showcases grassroots solutions in order
to inform and inspire audiences to action. Making Contact is broadcast
on 120 stations across the US and Canada and also can be listened to
via podcast and MP3s.
Our work heightens public consciousness, broadens debate on critical
social issues and encourages civic participation, by giving voice to
diverse perspectives and opinions underrepresented in the mass media.
Making Contact conducts community storytelling radio fellowships to
get Bay Area voices heard nationally. Making Contact is available for
hire for studio use and recording or training and invites any gigs or
donations to keep the crew afloat. Making Contact receives no
government or corporate funding, so we rely on community members to
chip in and contribute.
Email: lrudman@radioproject.org
Web: http://www.radioproject.org/
Keys: editorial comment; media; media criticism; radio
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Name: Mandatory Madness
Text: A project of a grassroots coalition of victims of unjust sentences,
their families, and activists who — like U.S. Supreme Court Justice
Anthony Kennedy — believe that in too many cases, mandatory minimum
sentences are unwise and unjust.
Web: http://www.mandatorymadness.org
Keys: coalitions; drugs; judiciation; legislation; mandatory minimum
sentencing
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Name: Mandela Foods Cooperative
Address: 1430 Seventh Street
Oakland CA 94607
Voice: (510) 452-1133
Text: A worker-owned grocery store located in West Oakland, across the
street from the West Oakland BART station carrying thoughtfully
sourced products, supporting local family farmers and local food
makers.
Email: info@mandelafoods.com
Web: http://mandelafoods.com
Keys: classes / courses; cooperatives; employment; food; investment;
nutrition
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Name: Mandela MarketPlace
Address: 1364 7th Street
Oakland CA 94607
Voice: (510) 433-0993
Text: A non-profit organization that works in partnership with local
residents, family farmers, and community-based businesses to improve
health, create wealth, and build assets through cooperative food
enterprises in low-income communities.
Through community engagement, education, business cultivation, and
financing, Mandela MarketPlace supports and resources the development
and growth of locally owned economies and sustainable food systems.
Our approach is based on a systems model that addresses issues of
economic disinvestment, food insecurity, and health inequity, building
on local assets to cultivate thriving communities.
Email: info@mandelamarketplace.org
Web: http://www.mandelamarketplace.org
Keys: agriculture; business; food; health; local economy; low-income;
sustainability
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Name: Manylabs
Address: 1086 Folsom Street
San Francisco CA 94103
Text: Supports independent scientists and makers pursuing "science for good"
projects. We emphasize education and open data/open source because
ultimately, we want learners of any age to have access to and become
comfortable with data, scientific processes, and mathematical
representations of the world. Practicing and teaching scientific
principles is critical for our wellbeing. By using data to address
real-world problems, we hope communities can make scientific arguments
that can fuel civic change. Our residency program aims to increase
collaboration within and outside of our own community, inspiring
project advancement and innovation.
Web: https://www.manylabs.org/
Keys: networking; open source / open data; science
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Name: Marijuana Policy Project (MPP)
Text: The largest organization in the U.S. that’s focused solely on ending
marijuana prohibition.
MPP’s mission is to change federal law to allow states to determine
their own marijuana policies without federal interference, as well as
to regulate marijuana like alcohol in all 50 states, D.C., and the
five territories.
MPP has been responsible for changing most major state-level marijuana
policy reforms since 2000.
Web: http://www.mpp.org/
Keys: cannabis; harm reduction; incarceration; law; policy
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Name: Marin City Community Development Corporation (CDC)
Address: 441 Drake Avenue
Marin City CA 94965
Voice: (415) 339-2837
Fax: (415) 332-0337
Text: Established in 1979 to improve the economic quality of life through
sustainable and thriving neighborhoods. Toward this end, MCCDC
promotes full employment, builds skills, and promotes economic
self-sufficiency.
Email: jobs@marincitycdc.org
Web: http://www.marincitycdc.org/
Keys: employment; Marin County; neighborhoods; self-sufficiency;
sustainability
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Name: Marin County Bicycle Coalition (MCBC)
Address: POBox 1115
Fairfax CA 94978
Voice: (415) 456-3469
Fax: (415) 456-9344
Text: Improving our county’s road and path facilities for walkers and bikers
since we formed in 1998. You’ve seen the impact of our advocacy
efforts in each of our towns: permanent bike racks, bike lane
striping, green-and-white bike route signs, road resurfacing,
‘sharrow’ road stencils, and so much more.
Web: http://www.marinbike.org
Keys: coalitions; cycling; Marin County; transportation; walking
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Name: Marin Interfaith Task Force on the Americas
Address: POBox 925
Larkspur CA 94977
Voice: (415) 924-3227
Fax: (415) 924-3227 (same as voice)
Text: A grassroots organization that has achieved local, national, and
international recognition for its positive contribution to ending
human rights abuses in Central America. Founded in 1985 in response to
the U.S. role in El Salvador, MITF has since expanded its focus to
include all of the Americas.
Proceeding from our hope for and commitment to world peace, our
mission is to educate North American citizens about realities in the
Americas and the role the U.S. plays there, and provide humanitarian
aid and support for projects in those regions.
Email: mitf@igc.org
Web: http://www.mitfamericas.org
Keys: calendars; Caribbean; Central America; Colombia; Cuba; El Salvador;
Guatemala; Haiti; humanitarian aid; legislation; Marin County; Mexico;
newsletters; religion; Venezuela
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Name: Marin Peace & Justice Coalition (MPJC)
Text: Join a movement that lifts the human spirit, that embraces the Bill of
Rights, that creates a true democracy, an independent media and a
sustainable world with peace and justice for all!
Moved by the event of 9/11 we came together to challenge our
government's unethical and illegal military response. Peaceful and
just solutions will prevail only if we examine our nation's policies
at home and abroad and address the root causes of war and terrorism.
Let us be guided by compassion as we challenge war and stop the terror
of poverty, inequality and injustice. Let us bring together the
widening circle who want to make real a world that works for all.
Web: http://www.mpjc.org
Keys: calendars; civil liberties; coalitions; foreign policy; international
law; Marin County; militarism; peace; policy; street theater; vigils
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Name: Marin Treatment Center (MTC)
Address: 1466 Lincoln Avenue (near Linden Lane)
San Rafael CA 94901-2021
Voice: (415) 457-3755
Fax: (415) 457-0849
Text: A community based non-profit agency that has been providing effective,
affordable and quality outpatient substance use treatment services
since 1976. Beginning in 2013 the agency expanded its services by
adding much needed mental health services to our list of program
services.
Our highly skilled team of doctors, nurses, psychologists and licensed
therapists work together with the client to provide individualized
services to meet the unique needs of each client.
Marin Treatment Center is a State of California licensed substance
abuse service provider as well as certified by the Commission on
Accreditation of Rehabilitation Facilities (CARF). Marin Treatment
Center is funded by Marin County Health and Human Services.
Email: office@mtcinc.org
Web: http://www.marintreatmentcenter.org
Keys: drugs; Marin County; services
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Name: Marin Vegetarian Education Group
Address: 12 Rally Court
Fairfax CA 94930
Voice: (415) 459-1666
Text: Promotes plant-based eating and provides information, inspiration and
community to help people move toward a healthier and more
compassionate lifestyle.
Our monthly newsletter points readers to resources, events, group
meetings, and news stories that support our goal.
There are no membership fees or dues, and anyone who wants to belong
to MarinVEG may do so simply by contacting us. You will receive a
monthly e-mail newsletter and be kept abreast of events that support
you in eating a healthy and delicious diet.
Email: VegetariansInMarin@Earthlink.net
Web: http://www.marinveg.org/
Keys: Marin County; veganism / vegetarianism
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Name: Marine Mammal Center, The
Address: 2000 Bunker Road
Fort Cronkhite
Sausalito CA 94965-2619
Voice: (415) 289-7325
Text: A nonprofit veterinary research hospital and educational center
dedicated to the rescue and rehabilitation of ill and injured marine
mammals – primarily elephant seals, harbor seals, and California sea
lions. Since 1975, we’ve been headquartered in Sausalito, CA in the
Marin Headlands within the Golden Gate National Parks, and have
rescued and treated more than 20,000 marine mammals.
Email: nfo@tmmc.org
Web: http://www.tmmc.org
Keys: conservation; endangered species / habitat; health; Marin County;
water
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Name: Marine Science Institute (MSI)
Address: 500 Discovery Parkway
Redwood City CA 94063-4715
Voice: (650)364-2760
Text: A nonprofit organization that offers hands-on science and
environmental education programs to students of all ages throughout
the Bay Area and Northern California. Our 90-foot research vessel
brings students onto the San Francisco Bay to be marine scientists for
the day. We also have shore-side programs and our trailer mounted
aquarium brings sharks, fish, sea stars, and other marine life to
schools. Our membership program has several family oriented
activities each year.
Email: Marilou@sfbaymsi.org
Web: http://www.sfbaymsi.org
Keys: bay / delta environment; conservation; education; research; San Mateo
County; science; students; water
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Name: MarinSpace (Marin Nonprofit Resource Center)
Address: 555 Northgate Drive, Suite 240A
San Rafael CA 94903
Voice: (415) 492-9444
Fax: (415) 492-3446
Text: For three decades MarinSpace has supported Marin’s small and medium
community organizations with stable, affordable, mission-driven,
quality workspace. Today, we provide both workspace and collaboration
tools to organizations that reach thousands of youth, families,
seniors and individuals in need. Through our direct services and
organizational partnerships, MarinSpace delivers information and
resource services, owns and operates quality, mission-driven
workspace, and manages a wide range of business and real estate
planning projects. As a result, nonprofits, that previously served
vulnerable clients in inefficient “hand-to-mouth” work environments,
can now embody their social change efforts by operating from a place
of effective, collaboration-driven, mission-enhancing stability.
Email: info@marinspace.org
Web: http://marinspace.org/
Keys: Marin County; networking; technical assistance
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Name: Martin Luther King Jr. Freedom Center
Address: 12500 Campus Drive Bldg. D, Rm 187
Oakland CA 94619
Voice: (510) 434-3988
Text: Promotes the principles of nonviolence and offers an environment where
young people actively seek peaceful, nonviolent solutions to the
difficult challenges we all face in our communities. The Freedom
Center serves individuals, organizations, schools and communities in
the Greater Bay Area.
Email: rroberts@mlkfreedomcenter.org
Web: http://www.mlkfreedomcenter.org
Keys: ecology; nonviolence; peace; youth
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Name: Media Alliance (MA)
Address: 2830 20th Street, Suite 102 (at Bryant Street)
San Francisco CA 94110
Voice: (415) 746-9475
Text: A media resource and advocacy center for media workers, non-profit
organizations, and social justice activists. Our mission is
excellence, ethics, diversity, and accountability in all aspects of
the media in the interests of peace, justice, and social
responsibility.
MA was founded with the belief that in order to ensure the free and
unfettered flow of information and ideas necessary to maintain a truly
democratic society, media must be accessible, accountable,
decentralized, representative of society's diversity and free from
covert or overt government control and corporate dominance.
Email: information@media-alliance.org
Web: http://www.media-alliance.org
Keys: classes / courses; free speech; media; media criticism; policy;
technical assistance
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Name: Media Matters for America
Text: A Web-based, not-for-profit, 501(c)(3) progressive research and
information center dedicated to comprehensively monitoring, analyzing,
and correcting conservative misinformation in the U.S. media.
Web: http://mediamatters.org/
Keys: analysis; media criticism; researchers
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Name: Media Watch
Text: Our work has inspired thousands of people to take a stance against
media bias. Media Watch protests have made global news coverage and
our work has been documented in The New York Times, Life Magazine, The
London Observer, Ms., Mother Jones, Sports Illustrated, Germany’s
Stern and Emma as well as on Donahue, Oprah and Dr. Phil.
Web: http://www.mediawatch.com
Keys: film / video; literacy; media criticism; newsletters; Santa Cruz
County; sexism; television; violence; watchdog groups
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Name: Mendocino Land Trust
Address: POBox 1094
Mendocino CA 95460
Voice: (707) 962-0470
Text: Mission is to conserve important natural resources of Mendocino County
including working farmlands and forests, wildlife habitat, open space,
scenic vistas, watersheds, and to facilitate public access. The Land
Trust provides stewardship opportunities on lands that it has
conserved to foster a more direct connection by people to the land and
water of Mendocino County. The Land Trust promotes healthy recreation
in natural settings and sustainable experiences for Mendocino County
residents and visitors.
Email: admin@mendocinolandtrust.org
Web: http://www.mendocinolandtrust.org/
Keys: conservation; deforestation; endangered species / habitat; land
trusts; Mendocino County; open space; watersheds; wildlife
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Name: Merritt College Environmental Program
Address: 12500 Campus Drive
Oakland CA 94619
Voice: (510) 434-3840
Text: One of the oldest environmental programs in the nation, and is
recognized for working in the community to solve real world
environmental problems.The program trains leaders in creative problem
solving, critical thinking, and responsible citizenship.
Email: ecomerritt@yahoo.com
Web: http://www.ecomerritt.org/
Keys: air; classes / courses; deforestation; energy; pollution; population
control; transportation; water; watersheds; wetlands; wildlife
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Name: Metaphor Project, The
Address: POBox 892
Orinda CA 94563
Voice: (925) 254-3304
Fax: (925) 254-3304 (same as voice)
Text: Our particular mission is helping progressive activists learn how to
frame their messages to reach the mainstream American public and their
political representatives.
We do this by teaching people how to do “American Framing.” That
means we show people how to use the colorful metaphors, images, catch
phrases, and memes that are an ongoing part of our national political
dialogue. Adapting phrases like “play by the rules,” or other
“American” frames for use in our own messages is a natural way to
evoke the best values we all share.
Email: metaphorproject@earthlink.net
Web: http://www.metaphorproject.org
Keys: analysis; classes / courses; communications; culture jamming; framing;
peace; propaganda; researchers; sustainability
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Name: Metropolitan Community Church of San Francisco (MCCSF)
Address: 1300 Polk Street
San Francisco CA 94109
Voice: (415) 863-4434
Text: We are a spiritual community which affirms that you are beloved!
Rooted in the Christian tradition, our members come from a variety of
spiritual backgrounds. We believe there are many paths to the holy,
and that our sexuality and genders are sacred gifts. We believe we are
called to a prophetic ministry championing the marginalized, including
lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people. We work for justice
and peace.
Web: http://www.mccsf.org/
Keys: AIDS / HIV; community-building; diversity; feminism; religion; sexual
minorities; spirituality
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Name: Metta Center for Nonviolence
Address: 205 Keller Street, Suite 202D
Petaluma CA 94952
Voice: (707) 774-6299
Text: We encourage people in all walks of life to discover their innate
capacity for nonviolence and to use its power strategically for the
long-term transformation of themselves and the world, focusing on the
root causes of injustice, competition, and violence. We aim to make
the logic, history and yet-unexplored potential of nonviolence more
accessible to activists and agents of cultural change (which
ultimately includes all of us).
Email: info@mettacenter.org
Web: http://www.mettacenter.org/
Keys: classes / courses; mentoring; nonviolence
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Name: Michael Parenti Political Archive
Text: Michael Parenti is an internationally known award-winning author and
lecturer. He is one of the nation’s leading progressive political
analysts. His highly informative and entertaining books and talks have
reached a wide range of audiences in North America and abroad.
Web: http://www.michaelparenti.org/
Keys: analysis; archiving; books; products
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Name: Mickaboo Companion Bird Rescue
Address: POBox 697
San Jose CA 95106-0697
Voice: (650) 450-9104 (voicemail)
Fax: 1-866-201-4199
Text: Our basic goal is to rescue parrots and other commonly domesticated
companion birds who have been neglected, abused, injured or
surrendered to us because their owners can no longer care for them. To
accomplish this goal, we do the following:
Provide medical care and safe, healthy, foster homes for the
rescued birds we take in.
Take in and rehabilitate injured or sick conures from the San
Francisco "Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill” flock.
Find and educate quality adoptive homes for the birds in our
foster care
Inform avian caregivers on the most current standards of care via
our free classes, online resources, and consultations.
Educate the public about the tragedies of overpopulation, and
encourage them to adopt, not buy or breed birds.
Web: http://www.mickaboo.org/
Keys: animal shelters and adoption; Santa Clara County
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Name: Middle East Children's Alliance (MECA)
Address: 1101 8th Street, Suite 100
Berkeley CA 94710
Voice: (510) 548-0542
Fax: (510) 548-0543
Text: A non-profit organization working for the rights of children in the
Middle East by sending humanitarian aid, supporting projects for
children and educating North American and international communities
about the effects of the US foreign policy on children in the region.
Email: meca@mecaforpeace.org
Web: http://www.mecaforpeace.org
Keys: children; human rights; Iraq; material aid; Middle East; Palestinians;
policy; travel
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Name: Midpeninsula Community Media Center
Address: 900 San Antonio Road
Palo Alto CA 94303-4917
Voice: (650) 494-8686
Fax: (650) 484-8386
Text: A nonprofit agency with digital media resources and training available
to the public. This web site is also a media gallery for “all things
midpeninsula.”
Use the Media Center to:
Learn Video Production and Other Digital Media
Craft and Distribute Your Message, Performance, Story etc.
Make Shows on Local Cable TV Access Channels
View Videos and Photography in our Online Gallery, or Cable
Channels or Web Streams
Build Community through the Media You Create
Build Community as a Media Center Volunteer Participating on
Production Teams
Email: info@midpenmedia.org
Web: http://midpenmedia.org
Keys: film / video; free speech; media; Santa Clara County; technical
assistance; television
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Name: Military Families Speak Out (MFSO)
Text: An organization of military families across the US and around the
world who are opposed to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and have a
loved one currently serving in the military, who has served in the
military since 9/11 or who has died as a result of the wars in Iraq
and Afghanistan.
As people with loved ones in the military, we have both a special need
and a unique role to play in speaking out. It is our loved ones who
are, have been, or will be on the battlefront. It is our loved ones
who are risking injury and death. It is our loved ones who are
returning scarred from their experiences. It is our loved ones who
will have to live with the injuries and deaths among innocent Iraqi
civilians.
Web: http://www.mfso.org/
Keys: family; Iraq; militarism
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Name: Millet Project, The
Text: We are a group of students and researchers at the University of
California Berkeley who are united by the common causes of the food
and agricultural diversity and entrepreneurship.
With a generous Seed Grant from the Berkeley Food Institute in 2015,
we are beginning to explore the scope of rediscovering the traditions
of cultivating millets, and further reintroducing them into our diet.
Web: https://themilletproject.org/
Keys: agriculture; diversity; food; researchers; seeds; students
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Name: Minkler, Doug
Address: 1715 Ward Street
Berkeley CA 94703
Voice: (510) 548-7119
Text: A San Francisco Bay Area printmaker, Doug specializes in fund raising,
outreach, educational posters, and art lessons.
Past collaborations include work with ILWU, Rain Forest Action
Network, SF Mime Troupe, ACLU, The Lawyers Guild, CISPES, United Auto
Workers, Africa Information Network, Ecumenical Peace Union, ADAPT,
Cop Watch, Street Sheet, and Veteran's for Peace.
Though this web site was designed to facilitate free distribution of
his graphics, those interested in purchasing original hand made screen
prints can contact Doug to do so.
Email: dminkler@dminkler.com
Web: http://dminkler.com
Keys: art; fundraising; posters and flyers; publicity
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Name: Mission Bay Community Church (MBCC)
Address: 32 Ocean Avenue
San Francisco CA 94112
Text: We are a community brought together in our curiosity and desire to
know Jesus Christ. We encounter the world and all its complexities
with integrity, authenticity, and a healthy dose of humor. Coming
together amidst our diverse views is a great witness to our faith in
Christ to the world.
We encourage people to question and grow in their faith. We support
each other in taking action in the world, even when it involves risk,
and we love and celebrate when forgiveness is sought and when life
brings new beginnings.
Web: http://www.missionbaycc.org
Keys: community-building; religion; urban life; youth
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Name: Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts (MCCLA)
Address: 2868 Mission Street (near 24th Street)
San Francisco CA 94110
Voice: (415) 821-1155 (administration)
(415) 643-2785 (box office)
Text: Established in 1977 by artists and community activists with a shared
vision to promote, preserve and develop the Latino cultural arts that
reflect the living tradition and experiences of the Chicano, Central
and South American, and Caribbean people. MCCLA makes the arts
accessible as an essential element to the community's development and
well-being.
Web: http://www.missionculturalcenter.org
Keys: art; Caribbean; Chicanas / Chicanos; Latinas / Latinos; music
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Name: Mission Economic Development Association (MEDA)
Address: 2301 Mission Street, Suite 301
San Francisco CA 94110
Voice: (415) 282-3334
Fax: (415) 282-3320
Text: Rooted in the Mission and focused on San Francisco, MEDA’s mission is
to strengthen low- and moderate-income Latino families by promoting
economic equity and social justice through asset building and
community development.
We envision generations of Latino families with sufficient assets to
thrive. Inspired by the past and present life of the Mission District,
families are rooted in vibrant, diverse and forward-thinking
communities, have opportunities to grow, and are actively engaged in
the civic and political life of their neighborhoods and the
institutions that affect their lives.
Email: mchavarria@medasf.org
Web: http://www.medasf.org/
Keys: business; community-building; development; diversity; economic
justice; Latinas / Latinos; local economy
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Name: MO/PEACE
Text: MO/PEACE has brought the community and a growing number of
individual’s solutions to conflict and violence using anger management
techniques and conflict resolution. This all started as a small home
outreach operation running a help line for women who have had
frustrations with parenting, partners, and victim’s caught in domestic
violence situations. MO/PEACE has worked with many nonprofit
organizations here in San Francisco the program MOVE, Haight Ashbury
Free Clinics, Baker Places, Olaff House, Walden House, the Glide
Foundation and most recently for SAGE inside Juvenile Hall with young
women who are caught in the Juvenile Justice system.
Web: http://www.linkedin.com/in/gingermartinmopeace
http://www.iGive.com/MO-PEACE
Keys: conflict resolution; consultants; networking; violence
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Name: Mobilization to Free Mumia Abu-Jamal
Address: POBox 10328
Oakland CA 94610
Voice: (510) 268-9429
Text: Mumia Abu-Jamal is an award-winning Pennsylvania journalist who
exposed police violence against minority communities. On death row
since 1982, he was wrongfully sentenced for the shooting of a police
officer. New evidence, including the recantation of a key eyewitness,
new ballistic and forensic evidence and a confession from Arnold
Beverly (one of the two killers of Officer Faulkner) points to his
innocence! Mumia had no criminal record.
Email: alerts@freemumia.org
Web: http://www.free-mumia.org
Keys: African Americans; journalism; Mumia Abu-Jamal; political prisoners
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Name: Moore, Frank
Text: Frank Moore was a performer, director, writer, and teacher of
shamanistic art. He conducted performance rituals throughout the year
and performed with his band, "The Cherotic All-Stars." An independent
candidate for President of the U.S. He published 'The Cherotic
rEvolutionary', a zine about "the edge".
Web: http://www.eroplay.com
http://www.frankmooreforpresident08.com/
Keys: art; censorship; individuals; performance art; theatre
[Contact data last verified 30 Aug 2015]
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Name: More Dirt
Text: More Dirt shirts seek to spark peoples' curiosity to learn how they
can bring more dirt and green life to their cities.
On the More Dirt website you'll find simple reasons why more dirt is
better for all living things as well as organizations you can contact
to learn about ways you can green your city.
Web: http://www.moredirt.org
Keys: global warming; local food; neighborhoods; urban life
[Contact data last verified 06 Aug 2016]
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Name: Mother Jones (MoJo)
Address: 222 Sutter Street, Suite 600
San Francisco CA 94108
Voice: (415) 321-1700
Text: A nonprofit news outlet that delivers bold and original award-winning
reporting on the urgent issues of our day, from politics and climate
change to education and the food we eat. We investigate stories that
are in the public and the nation's interest. From revelatory scoops to
deep-dive investigations, Mother Jones journalism is penetrating
storytelling that informs and inspires an engaged readership of 8
million monthly readers.
Web: http://www.mojones.com/
Keys: censorship; civil liberties; ecology; investigative journalism;
magazines; militarism; news on-line
[Contact data last verified 07 Dec 2015]
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Name: Mount Diablo Peace and Justice Center (MDPC)
Address: 1035 Carol Lane
Lafayette CA 94549
Voice: (925) 933-7850
Text: Crafting an opportunity to connect with the needs and values of the
people in Contra Costa County to build a culture of peace. The Center
has many programs: Creating Peaceful Schools Conference for educators,
Art and Writing Challenge for middle and high schoolers, discussion
groups/classes on non-violence and racial justice, addressing issues
such as fair elections, environmental stewardship - climate change,
highlighting the costs and futility of war, health care reform and
prison reform. And we honor those who lead the way - Annual Peace
Awards Dinner.
Email: margli@ourpeacecenter.org
Web: http://ourpeacecenter.org
Keys: calendars; Contra Costa County; peace centers; speakers
[Contact data last verified 26 Apr 2018]
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Name: Move to Amend (MTA)
Text: A coalition of hundreds of organizations and hundreds of thousands of
individuals committed to social and economic justice, ending corporate
rule, and building a vibrant democracy that is genuinely accountable
to the people, not corporate interests.
We are calling for an amendment to the US Constitution to
unequivocally state that inalienable rights belong to human beings
only, and that money is not a form of protected free speech under the
First Amendment and can be regulated in political campaigns.
Web: https://movetoamend.org
Keys: campaign finance reform; coalitions; corporations; democracy; economic
justice; First Amendment; legislation; petitions
[Contact data last verified 27 Nov 2016]
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Name: Moving Images Video Project
Text: Produces and distributes documentaries about war and peace, human
rights, global justice, and protection for the environment.
Founded by Melissa Young and Mark Dworkin to increase understanding in
the United States of political and social issues in Central America,
Moving Images later expanded to address the AIDS epidemic, labor
rights and childcare, international relations in the post cold-war
era, implications of new genetic technologies, local food and farming,
re-thinking our cities, and elements of a new economy that is more
sustainable and just.
Many of these programs have aired across North America on PBS, and
they are widely distributed to schools, libraries, and community
organizations.
Web: http://www.movingimages.org/
Keys: AIDS / HIV; biotechnology; Central America; childcare; film / video;
labor; militarism; peace; television
[Contact data last verified 27 Nov 2016]
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Name: Mujeres Unidas y Activas (Oakland office) (MUA)
Address: 2783 East 12th Street, Suite 201
Oakland CA 94601
Voice: (510) 261-3398
Text: A grassroots organization of Latina immigrant women with a double
mission of promoting personal transformation and building community
power for social and economic justice.
We achieve our mission by:
Creating an environment of understanding and confidentiality
Empowering and educating our members to provide mutual support
Offering trainings to build economic security and leadership
Working in diverse alliances on the local, regional, national, and
international levels
Organizing campaigns to win immigrant, workers’ and women’s
rights.
Web: http://www.mujeresunidas.net
Keys: civil rights; corporate-controlled globalization; economic justice;
immigrants; Latinas / Latinos; low-income; people of color; women
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Name: Mujeres Unidas y Activas (San Francisco office) (MUA)
Address: 3543 18th Street #23 (at Valencia)
San Francisco CA 94110
Voice: (415) 621-8140
Web: http://www.mujeresunidas.net
Keys: civil rights; corporate-controlled globalization; economic justice;
immigrants; Latinas / Latinos; low-income; people of color; women
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Name: Multicultural Institute
Address: 1920 Seventh Street
Berkeley CA 94710
Voice: (510) 848-4075
Text: A 501(c)3 nonprofit founded in 1991. Our mission is to be a stepping
stone that helps society transition immigrants from poverty and
isolation to prosperity and participation.
The Multicultural Institute’s programs enhance educational, economic,
and health opportunities, cultivate leadership development, and
stimulate positive transformation of individuals, families, and
communities.
Email: info@mionline.org
Web: http://mionline.org
Keys: health; immigrants; leadership development; multiculturalism; poverty
[Contact data last verified 05 Apr 2017]
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Name: Multifaith Voices for Peace and Justice (MVPJ)
Text: We come together from more than 36 diverse faith communities and
traditions to put our convictions into action by saying NO to war and
YES to peace and justice.
Web: http://www.multifaithpeace.org/
Keys: coalitions; militarism; peace; religion
[Contact data last verified 30 Aug 2015]
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Name: Multinational Exchange for Sustainable Agriculture (MESA)
Address: 2362 Bancroft Way #202
Berkeley CA 94704
Voice: (510) 654-8858
Text: Connects sustainable farming leaders around the world for
participatory training and cross-cultural exchange to strengthen
local, resilient food systems worldwide. Since 1997, MESA has
connected over 1300 farmers, activists and advocates and helped start
nearly 150 small-scale farms and food justice projects worldwide.
Email: mesa@mesaprogram.org
Web: http://www.mesaprogram.org
Keys: classes / courses; organic agriculture; research; sustainability
[Contact data last verified 30 Nov 2014]
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Name: Multinational Monitor
Text: A monthly magazine that tracks corporate activity, especially in the
Third World, focusing on the export of hazardous substances, worker
health and safety, labor union issues and the environment.
Web: http://multinationalmonitor.org/
Keys: corporate-controlled globalization; ecology; health; labor; magazines;
news on-line; toxics
[Contact data last verified 30 Nov 2014]
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Name: Multinationals Resource Center (MRC)
Text: Southern countries increasingly find themselves exploited by the worst
abuses of multinational corporations rampant pollution, oppressive
labor practices, exploitative trading arrangements, and more. Yet
Southern residents often have limited access to even basic information
such as who owns local factories and what is their labor and
environmental history, what are the laws that regulate specific
industries in the North, and what are cleaner alternative waste
management methods.
The Multinationals Resource Center (MRC) helps redress this situation
by providing valuable information, free of charge, to Southern
activists, environmental and consumer groups and journalists.
Web: http://resourcesfirst.org/
Keys: corporate-controlled globalization; research materials
[Contact data last verified 30 Nov 2014]
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Name: Museum of the African Diaspora (MoAD)
Address: 685 Mission Street (at Third Street)
San Francisco CA 94105
Voice: (415) 358-7200
Fax: (415) 358-7252
Text: A San Francisco based nonprofit organization that was conceived as a
cornerstone of the economic and cultural revitalization of downtown
San Francisco. Since it opened in December 2005 MoAD has become an
anchor with its neighbors, the San Francisco MoMA, the Yerba Buena
Center for the Arts, Zeum, and the Contemporary Jewish Museum, in
making this dynamic cultural corridor a premier cultural destination.
Web: http://www.moadsf.org
Keys: Africa; African Americans; art; diversity; education; film / video;
multiculturalism; museums; people of color; photography
[Contact data last verified 24 Jun 2015]
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Name: NamasteDirect
Address: 229 Brannan Street #3A
San Francisco CA 94107
Voice: (415) 412-2057
Text: Our mission is to directly contribute to Womenà¤–s Economic
Empowerment by providing business development programs that increase
the business cash flow of low income women.
Approximately 700 women annually are offered education services with
Q2,000 – Q5,000 loan ($260-$660) and if successful, a second loan of
Q3,000-Q7,000 ($400-900). Third loans are also an option. Inspired by
successful program graduates, we developed a separate “Starz” program
to loan up to $4,000 for women who can grow their businesses large
enough to employ additional workers.
Email: info@namaste-direct.org
Web: http://www.namaste-direct.org
Keys: business; classes / courses; Guatemala; mentoring; Mexico;
microenterprise; poverty; rural life; women
[Contact data last verified 06 Aug 2016]
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Name: NARAL Pro-Choice California
Address: 335 South Van Ness Avenue
San Francisco CA 94103
Voice: (415) 890-1020
Fax: (415) 890-1025
Text: The leading grassroots pro-choice advocacy organization in our state,
and we believe that every woman should be able to make personal
decisions about the full range of reproductive health options. NARAL
Pro-Choice California works to protect every woman’s right to access
the full range of reproductive health options, including preventing
unintended pregnancy, bearing healthy children, and choosing legal
abortion. NARAL Pro-Choice California is the state affiliate of NARAL
Pro-Choice America.
Email: Info@ProChoiceCalifornia.org
Web: http://www.prochoicecalifornia.org
Keys: elections; fundraising; health; lobbying; reproductive rights
[Contact data last verified 17 Feb 2018]
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Name: Narco News
Text: Reporting on the drug war and democracy from all America.
Web: http://www.narconews.com/
Keys: democracy; drugs; Latin America; militarism; news on-line; policy
[Contact data last verified 27 Nov 2016]
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Name: Narika
Address: POBox 14014
Berkeley CA 94712
Voice: (510) 444-6068
Fax: (510) 444-6048
Text: Mission is to promote the empowerment of women in South Asian
community to confront and overcome the cycles of violence and
exploitation. We work to build a movement to end violence against
women and to actively support women’s rights as human rights.
Founded in 1992, NARIKA embraces the ideal of women’s empowerment, by
addressing the needs of abused South Asian women by providing
advocacy, support, information, and referrals within a culturally
sensitive model, which includes treating the women who seek our
services as sisters rather than as clients.
Web: http://www.narika.org
Keys: domestic violence; services; South Asian Americans; women
[Contact data last verified 06 Aug 2016]
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Name: Nation Newsweekly Online, The
Text: A critical, independent voice in American journalism and a platform
for investigative reporting and spirited debate on issues of import to
the progressive community.
Web: http://www.thenation.com/
Keys: editorial comment; magazines; news on-line
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Name: Nation of Change
Text: Mission is to help people create a more compassionate, responsible,
and value-driven world, powered by communities that focus on positive
solutions to social and economic problems. We strive to accomplish
this mission through unbiased, independent journalism combined with
practical, real-world activism in order to create real-world
actionable strategies for change.
Web: http://www.nationofchange.org/
Keys: conservation; human rights; magazines; news on-line; newsletters;
peace
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Name: National Abortion Federaion (NAF)
Text: Te professional association of abortion providers in North America.
We believe that women should be trusted to make private medical decisions in
consultation with their health care providers. NAF currently offers
quality training and education to abortion providers and unbiased
information and referrals to women.
Web: http://www.prochoice.org/
Keys: reproductive rights
[Contact data last verified 30 Aug 2015]
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Name: National AIDS Memorial Grove (NAMG)
Address: POBox 2270
San Francisco CA 94126-2270
Voice: (415) 765-0497
Text: A dedicated space in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park where millions
of Americans touched directly or indirectly by AIDS can gather to
heal, hope, and remember. For all the promising prospects on the
horizon, AIDS continues to invade our lives, violate our past, and rob
us of our comfortable assumptions about the future. The sacred ground
of this living memorial honors all who have confronted this tragic
pandemic both those who have died and those who have shared their
struggle, kept the vigils, and supported each other during the final
hours.
Web: http://www.aidsmemorial.org
Keys: AIDS / HIV; parks; solidarity
[Contact data last verified 30 Aug 2015]
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Name: National Center for Employee Ownership (NCEO)
Address: 1629 Telegraph Avenue, Suite 200
Oakland CA 94612
Voice: (510) 208-1300
Fax: (510) 272-9510
Text: Mission is to provide practical resources and objective, reliable
information about employee ownership to businesses, employees, and the
public. Our members include companies, professional practitioners,
government officials, academics, and others. Membership brings you
into the employee ownership community and provides many benefits, but
nonmembers can also make use of many of our resources on ESOPs, equity
compensation, and ownership culture.
Email: customerservice@nceo.org
Web: http://www.nceo.org/
Keys: employee ownership; research materials
[Contact data last verified 17 Feb 2018]
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Name: National Center for Lesbian Rights (NCLR)
Address: 870 Market Street, Suite 370
San Francisco CA 94102
Voice: (415) 392-6257 (392-NCLR)
Fax: (415) 392-8442
Text: A national legal organization committed to advancing the civil and
human rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people and
their families through litigation, legislation, policy, and public
education.
NCLR is a non-profit, public interest law firm that litigates
precedent-setting cases at the trial and appellate court levels;
advocates for equitable public policies affecting the LGBT community;
provides free legal assistance to LGBT people and their legal
advocates; and conducts community education on LGBT issues.
Email: Info@NCLRights.org
Web: http://www.nclrights.org
Keys: civil rights; human rights; Lesbians; litigation; policy; sexual
minorities; women
[Contact data last verified 06 Aug 2016]
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Name: National Center for Science Education (NCSE)
Address: 1904 Franklin Street, Suite 600
Oakland CA 94612-2922
Voice: (510) 601-7203
Fax: (510) 788-7971
Text: A not-for-profit, membership organization providing information and
resources for schools, parents, and concerned citizens working to keep
evolution and climate science in public school science education. We
educate the press and public about the scientific and educational
aspects of controversies surrounding the teaching of evolution and
climate change, and supply needed information and advice to defend
good science education at local, state, and national levels. Our 5000
members are scientists, teachers, clergy, and citizens with diverse
religious and political affiliations.
Email: info@ncse.com
Web: http://ncse.com
Keys: climate change; evolution; public education; research materials;
science
[Contact data last verified 02 Mar 2016]
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Name: National Center for Youth Law (NCYL)
Address: 405 14th Street, 15th Floor
Oakland CA 94612-2701
Voice: (510) 835-8098
Text: A non-profit law firm that helps low-income children achieve their
potential by transforming the public agencies that serve them.
NCYL leads high impact campaigns that weave together litigation,
research, public awareness, policy development, and technical
assistance. The Center’s goal is not to reform one particular system,
but to transform the multiple public systems serving vulnerable
children – including education, child welfare, public health,
behavioral health, juvenile justice, and workforce development – such
that they receive the supports they need to advance and thrive.
Email: info(at)youthlaw.org
Web: http://www.youthlaw.org
Keys: children; juvenile justice; litigation; low-income; policy; poverty;
public health; technical assistance; youth
[Contact data last verified 26 Nov 2017]
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Name: National Center on Disability and Journalism (NCDJ)
Text: People with disabilities make up at least 19 percent of the U.S.
population or 54.4 million people. The goal of the NCDJ is to provide
support and guidance for journalists as they cover people with
disabilities.
Web: http://www.ncdj.org
Keys: disabilities; educational curriculum; journalism; media criticism
[Contact data last verified 30 Aug 2015]
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Name: National Coalition Against Censorship (NCAC)
Text: Mission is to promote freedom of thought, inquiry and expression and
oppose censorship in all its forms. The Coalition formed in response
to the 1973 Supreme Court decision in Miller v. California, which
narrowed First Amendment protections for sexual expression and opened
the door to obscenity prosecutions.
Over 40 years, as an alliance of more than 50 national non-profits,
including literary, artistic, religious, educational, professional,
labor, and civil liberties groups, we have engaged in direct advocacy
and education to support First Amendment principles. NCAC is unique in
that we are national in scope, but often local in our approach. We
work with community members to resolve censorship controversies
without the need for litigation.
Web: http://www.ncac.org
Keys: art; censorship; civil liberties; coalitions; First Amendment
[Contact data last verified 17 Feb 2018]
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Name: National Coalition for the Homeless (NCH)
Text: A national network of people who are currently experiencing or who
have experienced homelessness, activists and advocates,
community-based and faith-based service providers, and others
committed to a single mission: To prevent and end homelessness while
ensuring the immediate needs of those experiencing homelessness are
met and their civil rights protected. We envision a world where
everyone has a safe, decent, affordable and accessible home.
Web: http://www.nationalhomeless.org/
Keys: coalitions; homelessness; policy; technical assistance
[Contact data last verified 30 Nov 2014]
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Name: National Committee on Pay Equity (NCPE)
Text: A coalition of women's and civil rights organizations; labor unions;
religious, professional, legal, and educational associations,
commissions on women, state and local pay equity coalitions and
individuals working to eliminate sex- and race-based wage
discrimination and to achieve pay equity.
NCPE's purpose is to close the wage gap that still exists between
women, as well as people of color, and men. In 1963, when the Equal
Pay Act was signed, women made 59 cents on average for every dollar
earned by men (based on Census figures of median wages of full-time,
year-round workers). By 2012, women earned 77 cents to men's dollar, a
narrowing of the wage gap by less than half a cent a year.
Web: http://www.pay-equity.org
Keys: civil rights; coalitions; discrimination; labor; law; women
[Contact data last verified 06 Aug 2016]
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Name: National Cooperative Business Association (NCBA)
Text: For nearly 100 years, NCBA CLUSA has encouraged communities to live
cooperatively, harnessing the uncommon power of common purpose. NCBA
CLUSA applies cooperative principles in development, advocacy, and
education.
Web: http://www.ncba.coop
Keys: cooperatives
[Contact data last verified 30 Nov 2014]
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Name: National Family Farm Coalition (NFFC)
Text: NFFC promotes socially just farm and food policies and empowers family
farmers to reduce corporate control of agriculture.
U.S. farm and food policy must change in order to reverse the economic
devastation currently faced by our nation’s family farmers and rural
communities. In addition, our international trade policy must
recognize each nation’s right and responsibility to make their own
decisions about how to develop and protect the capacity to grow food,
sustain the livelihood of food producers, and feed the people in its
own borders. We envision empowered communities everywhere working
together democratically to advance a food and agriculture system that
ensures health, justice, and dignity for all.
Web: http://www.nffc.net/
Keys: agriculture; coalitions; conservation; corporations; family; food;
policy; rural life; trade
[Contact data last verified 18 May 2017]
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Name: National Federation of Community Development Credit Unions
Text: Mission is to help low- and moderate-income people and communities
achieve financial independence through credit unions.
The Federation is a dynamic, growth-oriented association of credit
unions that provide safe and responsible financial services to
underserved communities. Since 1974, the Federation has been promoting
financial inclusion by organizing, supporting, and investing in these
community development credit unions (CDCUs), which specialize in
serving populations with limited access to affordable financial
services, including low-income wage earners, families, new immigrants,
young people and the growing number of Americans seeking financial
independence through credit unions.
Web: http://www.cdcu.coop
Keys: banks; community-building; credit unions; finance; low-income; rural
life; self-help; technical assistance; urban life
[Contact data last verified 18 May 2017]
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Name: National Freedom of Information Coalition (NFOIC)
Text: Protects our right to open government.
We are a nonpartisan alliance of citizen-driven nonprofit freedom of information
organizations, academic and First Amendment centers, journalistic
societies and attorneys.
Twice annually, NFOIC awards grants to strengthen state coalitions and
member organizations, foster their growth, and support a broad range
of open government endeavors in individual states.
We are an education and outreach resource for state and local
governments to counsel on transparency and open government issues,
laws and legislation.
Web: http://www.nfoic.org/
Keys: coalitions; First Amendment; freedom of information; grants /
financial aid; research materials
[Contact data last verified 14 Mar 2015]
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Name: National Gulf War Resource Center
Text: We are among the most successful Veterans' Organizations in the United
States advocating for veterans affected by Gulf War Illness (GWI). We
formed shortly after the Persian Gulf War of 1991. Our work has been
critical in establishing the rights, treatments, and benefits which
these veterans have access to now. Our work is far from done. GWI is
still poorly understood and incurable.
It is our mission to help all veterans who served in the US armed
forces from 1989 to the present day. In addition to our long focus on
GWI and other chronic multisymptom illnesses which affect veterans, we
provide resources and support for veterans affected by traumatic brain
injury, post traumatic stress disorder, and infectious diseases.
Web: http://www.ngwrc.org/
Keys: coalitions; depleted uranium; health; Iraq; militarism
[Contact data last verified 17 Feb 2018]
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Name: National Housing Trust (ICE)
Text: Protects and improves existing affordable rental homes so that low
income individuals and families can live in quality neighborhoods with
access to opportunities. Has preserved or helped to preserve more than
25,000 affordable homes through real estate development, lending, and
technical assistance. Click here to see our impact.
Web: http://www.nhtinc.org
Keys: economic justice; housing; land trusts
[Contact data last verified 30 Aug 2015]
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Name: National Immigration Law Center (Berkeley office) (NILC)
Voice: (510) 663-8282
Fax: (510) 663-2028
Text: One of the leading organizations in the U.S. exclusively dedicated to
defending and advancing the rights of low-income immigrants.
At NILC, we believe that all people who live in the U.S.—regardless of
their race, gender, immigration and/or economic status—should have the
opportunity to achieve their full potential. Over the years, we’ve
been at the forefront of many of the country’s greatest challenges
when it comes to immigration issues, and play a major leadership role
in addressing the real-life impact of polices that affect the ability
of low-income immigrants to prosper and thrive.
Web: https://www.nilc.org
Keys: immigrants; law; low-income
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Name: National Law Center on Homelessness & Poverty
Text: The only national legal group dedicated to ending and preventing
homelessness. It works to expand access to affordable housing, meet
the immediate and long-term needs of those who are homeless or at
risk, and strengthen the social safety-net through
Policy advocacy;
Public education;
Impact litigation; and
Advocacy training and support
We believe all human beings have the right to a basic standard of
living that includes safe, affordable housing, healthcare, and freedom
from discrimination and cruelty.
Web: http://www.nlchp.org/
Keys: homelessness; law; litigation; policy; poverty
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Name: National Lawyers Guild - San Francisco Bay Area Chapter (NLGSF)
Address: 558 Capp Street (between 20th and 21st)
San Francisco CA 94110
Voice: (415) 285-5067
Fax: (415) 285-5066
Text: An association dedicated to the need for basic change in the structure
of our political and economic system. We seek to unite the lawyers,
law students, legal workers, and jailhouse lawyers of America in an
organization which shall function as an effective political and social
force in the service of the people, to the end that human rights shall
be regarded as more sacred than property interests.
Email: contact@nlgsf.org
Web: http://www.nlgsf.org/
Keys: corporations; demonstrations; economic justice; lawyers; legal
defense; PATRIOT Act; sexual minorities
[Contact data last verified 15 Nov 2015]
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Name: National Network for Immigrant and Refugee Rights (NNIRR)
Address: 310 Eighth Street, Suite 303
Oakland CA 94607
Voice: (510) 465-1984
Fax: (510) 465-1885
Text: Works to defend and expand the rights of all immigrants and refugees,
regardless of immigration status. Since its founding in 1986, the
organization has drawn membership from diverse immigrant communities,
and actively builds alliances with social and economic justice
partners around the country. As part of a global movement for social
and economic justice, NNIRR is committed to human rights as essential
to securing healthy, safe and peaceful lives for all.
Email: nnirrinfo@nnirr.org
Web: http://www.nnirr.org
Keys: analysis; civil rights; coalitions; immigrants; labor; networking;
refugees
[Contact data last verified 30 Nov 2014]
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Name: National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws, California
Chapter (California NORML)
Address: 2261 Market Street #278A
San Francisco CA 94114
Voice: (415) 563-5858
Fax: (510) 849-3974
Text: A non-profit, membership organization dedicated to reforming
California's marijuana laws. Our mission is to establish the right of
adults to use cannabis legally. We are the only state organization
devoted specifically to marijuana reform. We publish a newsletter,
lobby lawmakers, sponsor events, offer legal, educational, and
consumer health advice, and sponsor scientific research. We maintain a
separate membership and financial base from national NORML.
Email: info@canorml.org
Web: http://www.canorml.org
Keys: cannabis; education; lobbying; newsletters
[Contact data last verified 30 Aug 2015]
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Name: National Organization for Women (NOW)
Text: As the grassroots arm of the women’s movement, the National
Organization for Women is dedicated to its multi-issue and
multi-strategy approach to women’s rights, and is the largest
organization of feminist grassroots activists in the United States.
NOW has hundreds of chapters and hundreds of thousands of members and
activists in all 50 states and the District of Columbia. Since our
founding in 1966, NOW’s purpose is to take action through
intersectional grassroots activism to promote feminist ideals, lead
societal change, eliminate discrimination, and achieve and protect the
equal rights of all women and girls in all aspects of social,
political, and economic life.
Web: http://now.org/
Keys: feminism; reproductive rights; sexism; women
[Contact data last verified 19 Aug 2017]
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Name: National Organization of Circumcision Information Resource Centers
(NOCIRC)
Address: POBox 2512
San Anselmo CA 94979-2512
Voice: (415) 488-9883
Fax: (415) 488-9660
Text: Dedicated to making a safer world, NOCIRC is a 501(c)(3) educational
non-profit organization committed to securing the birthright of male,
female, and intersex children and babies to keep their sex organs
intact.
NOCIRC provides educational material about the structures, functions,
development, and care of normal penile anatomy and offers information
about circumcision and the care of the circumcised as well as the
intact penis.
Email: info@nocirc.org
Web: http://www.nocirc.org
Keys: circumcision; Marin County; researchers
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Name: National Organization of Restoring Men (NORM)
Text: A non-profit support group for men who have concerns about being
circumcised, are considering foreskin restoration, or are in the
process of restoring their foreskins. Our aim is to help men regain a
sense of self-directedness -- physically as well as emotionally.
NORM is dedicated to providing an arena in which circumcised men can
share their concerns without fear of being ridiculed for a desire to
be intact and whole again. A safe place is provided to discuss goals
and learn about methods and techniques of restoration and to discover
those methods that will work best for each individual.
Web: http://www.norm.org
Keys: circumcision; health; men; support groups
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Name: National Priorities Project (NPP)
Text: The only nonprofit, non-partisan federal budget research organization
in the nation with the mission to make the federal budget accessible
to the American public. We believe that everyone can and should
understand and participate in critical debates about federal spending
and revenue. Our team takes a complex federal budgeting process and
cracks it open for ordinary folks – providing the information, tools,
and motivation necessary to catalyze strategic citizen action around
fiscal issues that affect us all.
Web: http://www.nationalpriorities.org/
Keys: analysis; economic justice; housing; living wage; national government;
policy; taxes
[Contact data last verified 26 Nov 2017]
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Name: National Security Archive
Text: Founded in 1985 by journalists and scholars to check rising government
secrecy, the National Security Archive combines a unique range of
functions: investigative journalism center, research institute on
international affairs, library and archive of declassified U.S.
documents ("the world's largest nongovernmental collection" according
to the Los Angeles Times), leading non-profit user of the U.S. Freedom
of Information Act, public interest law firm defending and expanding
public access to government information, global advocate of open
government, and indexer and publisher of former secrets.
Web: http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/
Keys: archiving; covert operations; freedom of information; government;
history; libraries; research materials
[Contact data last verified 17 Feb 2018]
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Name: National Writers Union (NWU)
Text: The National Writers Union is more than just another writers’
organization. It is the only labor union that represents freelance
writers working in all genres, formats, and mediums. Through its
parent union, The United Auto Workers, the National Writers Union is a
member of the American Federation of Labor Organizations.
As freelancers we may value our autonomy, but we are united by the
fact that we work independently. We face the same challenges, file the
same income tax forms, and often suffer the same frustrations. Whether
you’re a journalist, a book author, a technical or business writer, a
screenwriter or blogger – whether you write poetry or proposals – the
NWU is already working to improve your professional life.
Web: http://www.nwu.org
Keys: labor union locals; writers
[Contact data last verified 17 Feb 2018]
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Name: Native American Health Center (NAHC)
Address: 3124 International Blvd
Oakland CA 94601
Text: A non profit organization serving the California Bay Area Native
Population and other under-served populations in the Bay Area. 2012
marked NAHC's 40th anniversary; as an organization, we have been
serving our community since 1972.
NAHC has worked at local, state, and federal levels to deliver
resources and services for the urban Native community, including
medical, dental, behavioral health, diabetes, obesity, substance abuse
prevention, HIV/HCV care coordination and prevention.
Web: http://www.nativehealth.org
Keys: AIDS / HIV; counseling; drugs; education; family; health;
homelessness; mental health; Native Americans; neighborhoods;
nutrition; prevention; services; women; youth
[Contact data last verified 17 Feb 2018]
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Name: Native Forest Council
Text: Dedicated to the preservation and protection of all publicly owned
natural resources from destructive practices, sales, and all resource
extraction. Commercial timber sales, grazing, mining, and oil and gas
extraction all contribute to the destruction and degradation of air
quality, wildlife habitat, and of our wilderness areas. We believe a
sound economy and environment need not be incompatible, and that
current land management practices are devastating to both.
Web: http://www.forestcouncil.org
Keys: conservation; deforestation; legislation; lobbying
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Name: Native Seeds / SEARCH (NS/S)
Text: Crop diversity is key to achieving sustainable food security both
globally and within our own region of focus, the southwestern U.S. and
northwestern Mexico. Our approach to food security focuses on seed
security, which relies on the conservation and sharing of appropriate
crop diversity and the knowledge to use that diversity effectively.
Web: http://www.nativeseeds.org/
Keys: agriculture; biodiversity; classes / courses; conservation; diversity;
indigenous people; Mexico; researchers; seeds
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Name: Nature in the City
Address: POBox 170088
San Francisco CA 94117
Voice: (415) 564-4107
Text: Mission is to inspire San Francisco to discover local nature
Nature in the City is San Francisco's first organization wholly dedicated to
ecological conservation, restoration, and stewardship of the city's
bioregions. Our membership reflects San Francisco's reputation as a
leading center for safeguarding urban species and restoring their
habitats.
Nature in the City connects with the city at large through presenting
nature walks, events for children and families, eco-literacy
trainings, volunteer opportunities, and resources for community groups
wishing to start their own citizen science projects.
Web: http://www.natureinthecity.org/
Keys: biodiversity; bioregionalism; conservation; ecology; endangered
species / habitat; gardening; public education; wildlife
[Contact data last verified 18 May 2017]
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Name: Nature Village
Text: A multidisciplinary group consisting of University Village residents,
UC Berkeley students, staff, campus sustainability groups, and
volunteers. Our mission is to create community around sustainable
living at University Village. Through our work, we promote
environmental education and encourage conservation with regards to
energy, water, and waste.
Nature Village is a program within the Student Environmental Resource
Center (SERC).
Web: http://www.naturevillage.org/
Keys: conservation; energy; students; sustainability; waste; water
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Name: Naturist Society
Text: Mission is to promote body acceptance through clothing-optional
recreation using the tools of education and community outreach.
The Naturist Society views clothing-optional recreation as essential
to body acceptance. Through clothing-optional recreation,
participants, be they individuals, couples or families, learn to
appreciate the diversity of body types and gain a better understanding
and acceptance of their own bodies.
Web: http://www.naturist.com/
Keys: cycling; hiking; nudism; sports
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Name: NetSquared.org
Text: Gathers together nonprofits and activists, tech leaders and funders,
and everyone who's interested in using technology for social change.
Our vision is to make it easy, meaningful, and fun for people and
organizations to get the information, visibility and in-person support
they need to maximize technology for social good. Founded in 2005 we
bring together civil society and the technology community.
Web: http://www.netsquared.org/
Keys: blogs; Internet; networking; technical assistance
[Contact data last verified 05 Sep 2015]
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Name: Network of Bay Area Worker Cooperatives (NoBAWC)
Address: POBox 3246
Oakland CA 94609
Voice: (510) 736-2667 (voice message)
Text: A grassroots organization of democratic workplaces dedicated to
building workplace democracy in the San Francisco Bay Area and beyond.
NoBAWC is comprised primarily of worker cooperatives.
NoBAWC is comprised of small and medium-sized workplaces with a few to
over 200 worker-owners, representing diverse industries and sectors of
the economy. All are democratic, however their legal and
organizational structures vary. Most are businesses while some are
non-profits; most provide a living for their workers while some are
volunteer-run; many utilize direct democracy while others use both
direct and representational structures.
Email: info@nobawc.org
Web: http://www.nobawc.org
Keys: collectives; cooperatives; labor; networking
[Contact data last verified 18 May 2017]
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Name: Nevada Desert Experience (NDE)
Address: 1420 West Bartlett Avenue
Las Vegas NV 89106-2226
Voice: (702) 646-4814
(510) 333-2202
Text: Using a campaign of prayer, education, dialogue, and nonviolent direct
action, our mission is to stop modern weapons development, including
the end of automated warfare and nuclear weaponeering in Southern
Nevada. We support personal renewal through desert spirituality and we
mobilize people of faith as our primary methods to prevent the return
of full-scale nuclear testing.
We come to the desert to engage the destruction of violence with the
constructive nonviolence. We seek reconnection with each other and the
earth, by understanding and taking responsibility for the consequences
of our actions.
Email: info@nevadadesertexperience.org
Web: http://NevadaDesertExperience.org
Keys: demonstrations; desert; drone warfare; nonviolence; nuclear weapons /
testing; religion
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Name: New Day Films
Text: A unique, filmmaker-run distribution company, providing award-winning
films to educators, community groups, government agencies, public
libraries and businesses since 1971. Democratically run by more than
150 filmmaker members, New Day delivers hundreds of titles that
illuminate, challenge and inspire. New Day was initially formed
because the women's movement had arrived and a group of independent
filmmakers were unable to find a distributor for their feminist
films—so they decided to create one. Today, New Day members sustain
the ideals that inspired the company's formation in 1971 -
partnership, great stories and changing the world - and curate its
collection to encompass a wide range of subject areas.
Web: http://www.newday.com/
Keys: collectives; film / video
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Name: New Door Ventures (GGCI)
Address: 3221 20th Street
San Francisco CA 94110
Voice: (415) 920-9200
Fax: (415) 920-9203
Text: Prepares disconnected youth for work and life. We provide
skill-building, individual support and jobs that enable our youth to
discover and achieve their potential. Our work is integral to their
successful transition to healthy, sustainable adulthood. We aim to
transform individuals who will in turn transform their communities.
Web: http://www.newdoor.org/
Keys: at-risk youth; business; employment; youth
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Name: new economics foundation (nef)
Text: The UK's leading think tank promoting social, economic and
environmental justice. Our aim is to transform the economy so that it
works for people and the planet.
The UK and most of the world's economies are increasingly
unsustainable, unfair and unstable. It is not even making us any
happier – many of the richest countries in the world do not have the
highest wellbeing.
Web: http://www.neweconomics.org
Keys: economics; Great Britain; think tanks
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Name: New Economics Institute
Text: A network of organizations imagining and building a future where
people, communities, and ecosystems thrive. Together, we are creating
deep change in our economy and politics—placing power in the hands of
people and uprooting legacies of harm—so that a fundamentally new
system can take root.
Web: http://neweconomicsinstitute.org
Keys: climate change; economics; finance
[Contact data last verified 27 Nov 2016]
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Name: New Field Foundation
Address: POBox 151350
San Rafael CA 94915-1350
Voice: (415) 561-3417
Fax: (415) 561-3419
Text: Contributes to the creation of a peaceful and equitable world by
supporting women and their families to overcome poverty, violence, and
injustice in their communities.
New Field’s approach is based on our philosophy of social change and
the way we believe peace and equitability are realized.
Email: info@newfieldfound.org
Web: http://www.newfieldfound.org/
Keys: Africa; poverty; sustainability; violence; women
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Name: New Israel Fund (San Francisco Regional Office) (NIF)
Address: 235 Montgomery Street, Suite 920
San Francisco CA 94104
Voice: (415) 543-5055
Fax: (415) 543-6066
Text: Helps Israel live up to its founders' vision of a state that ensures
complete equality of social and political rights to all its
inhabitants. Our aim is to advance liberal democracy, including
freedom of speech and minority rights, and to fight inequality,
injustice, and extremism that diminish Israel.
Email: sf@nif.org
Web: http://www.nif.org
Keys: grants / financial aid; human rights; immigrants; Israel; Israelis;
poverty
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Name: New Society Publishers (NSP)
Text: Mission is to publish books that contribute in fundamental ways to
building an ecologically sustainable and just society, and to do so
with the least possible impact on the environment, in a manner that
models this vision.
New Society Publishers’ work speaks to individuals and organizations
interested in changing their lives so that they may change the world
for the better.
Web: http://www.newsociety.com/
Keys: book publishers; Marin County; nonviolence; sustainability
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Name: New Village Press
Text: New Village books serve the interdependent fields of social justice,
participatory planning, community building, ecology, and
community-based arts. The Press crosses boundaries between
professional, academic and informal education with books that engage
practitioners and community activists working together to rebuild
neighborhoods. Most significantly, our books go beyond abstract policy
and present the human story, the motivations that stir the soul to
make a certain part of the world a better place to live.
Web: http://www.newvillagepress.net/
Keys: architecture; book publishers; community-building; development;
ecology; gardening; urban life; youth
[Contact data last verified 27 May 2017]
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Name: News from Native California
Address: 1633 University Avenue
Berkeley CA 94703
Voice: (510) 549-2802
Fax: (510) 549-1889
Text: A quarterly magazine devoted to the vibrant cultures, arts, languages,
histories, social justice movements, and stories of California’s
diverse Indian peoples. We strive to preserve the cherished knowledge
of an older generation, provide opportunities for a younger generation
making a place for Indian ways in the modern world, and illuminate the
beauty of Native cultures to all of California.
Web: http://newsfromnativecalifornia.com/
Keys: history; magazines; Native Americans
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Name: Newslink
Text: Perhaps the most complete listing of newspapers, magazines, and other
news organizations on the web.
Web: http://newslink.org/
Keys: directories; news; news on-line
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Name: NewspaperIndex.com
Text: I collect and maintain links only to newspapers and publications
containing local, free and independent news from each country in the
world. You will not find links to online media sites that solely grab
information, reports and content from other sources. The database does
not have newspapers that focus on gossip, rumour, local or sport news.
I only include websites with free public access that have a local
editorial staff of independent journalists and in most cases a print
version as well.
Web: http://www.newspaperindex.com/
Keys: directories; news on-line; newspapers
[Contact data last verified 02 Mar 2016]
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Name: Next Generation, The (TNG)
Address: 1814 Franklin Street, Suite 510
Oakland CA 94612
Voice: (510) 444-4710
Fax: (510) 444-4743
Text: An award-winning political consulting and issue advocacy firm,
specializing in progressive and environmental candidates and causes in
the Bay Area and across California.
Email: info@nextgeneration.org
Web: http://www.nextgeneration.org/
Keys: consultants; ecology; elections; legislation
[Contact data last verified 02 May 2015]
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Name: NextArts
Address: POBox 880418
San Francisco CA 94188
Voice: (415) 970-9005
Text: A charity non-profit that uses the equipment we own to raise funds for
our programming.
We specialize in full service event production. In this capacity, we
work primarily in major hotels and exhibition centers and only the Bay
Area's finest wineries and intimate event spaces. We take great pride
in working with the most prestigious venues in the San Francisco Bay
Area - from San Jose to Napa, Oakland and beyond.
Email: mail@nextarts.org
Web: http://www.nextarts.org
Keys: media
[Contact data last verified 19 May 2018]
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Name: Niebyl-Proctor Marxist Library
Address: 6501 Telegraph Avenue
Oakland CA 94609-1113
Voice: (510) 595-7417
Text: Aims to help working people understand and create our role in history
by maintaining and building an accessible library and archive, by
organizing classes and discussions, and by providing community space
and resources to promote culture and critical thinking. We are
inclusive, independent, nonsectarian, anti-capitalist and committed to
struggle for democracy and against all forms of discrimination.
Email: NPML@marxistlibr.org
Web: http://www.marxistlibr.org
Keys: archiving; classes / courses; communism; history; libraries;
socialism; spaces for events
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Name: Nine Lives Foundation
Address: 3016 Rolison Road
Redwood City CA 94063
Voice: (650) 368-1365
Text: A community based non-profit 501c3 organization that rescues cats and
kittens from high-kill shelters and at-risk homeless situations,
providing them with a no-kill shelter and on-site medical care,
seeking loving permanent homes for them.
Email: ninelivesfoundation@gmail.com
Web: http://www.NineLivesFoundation.org
Keys: animal shelters and adoption; San Mateo County
[Contact data last verified 06 Aug 2016]
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Name: Ninth Street Independent Film Center
Address: 145 Ninth Street, Suite 250
San Francisco CA 94103
Voice: (415) 625-6100
Fax: (415) 552-0882
Text: Mission is to secure a lasting space for the creation and
dissemination of independent media that promotes democracy, community
participation, cultural preservation, access and lifelong learning to
a diverse community of artists and audiences.
Email: info[at]ninthstreet.org
Web: http://www.ninthstreet.org
Keys: art; democracy; diversity; film / video
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Name: No Kill Advocacy Center
Address: 6114 La Salle Avenue #837
Oakland CA 94611
Text: If every animal shelter in the United States embraced the No Kill
philosophy and the programs and services that make it possible, we
would save nearly three million animals who are scheduled to die in
shelters this year, and the year after that.
?It is not an impossible dream.
Web: http://www.nokilladvocacycenter.org/
Keys: animal liberation; animal shelters and adoption
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Name: No Kill NOW! (NKN)
Text: It is estimated as many as 250,000,000 companion animals were
slaughtered in American 'shelters' during the last decade. That figure
is equivalent to the entire US human population in 1991.
This site is dedicated to citizens everywhere who are willing to join
together for a common cause: to STOP THE KILLING of dogs and cats and
other companion animals in our municipal shelters.
Web: http://www.nokillnow.com
Keys: animal liberation; animal shelters and adoption; law
[Contact data last verified 27 Nov 2016]
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Name: Noam Chomsky Archive
Text: Noam Chomsky is one of America's most prominent political dissidents.
A renowned professor of linguistics at MIT, he has authored over 30
political books dissecting such issues as U.S. interventionism in the
developing world, the political economy of human rights and the
propaganda role of corporate media.
Web: http://www.chomsky.info/
Keys: analysis; developing world; intervention; media criticism; militarism;
propaganda
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Name: Nolo
Text: Mission is to help consumers and small businesses find answers to
their everyday legal and business questions.
With over 50 web properties, the Nolo Network is one of the web’s
largest libraries of consumer-friendly legal information – all
available for free. With oversight from Nolo’s editorial team, we
strive to deliver free legal information of the highest quality. We
also offer local lawyers the ability to contribute to the Nolo
network. View a complete list of sites in the Nolo Network.
Consumers and small business owners can handle many legal matters
themselves with Nolo’s do-it-yourself products, which range from
online forms and software to books and eGuides. All are written in
plain English, with step-by-step instructions that help you get the
job done.
Web: http://www.nolo.com
Keys: book publishers; do-it-yourself; law; mail-order; self-help; software
[Contact data last verified 17 Feb 2018]
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Name: Non-GMO Project
Text: Offers North America’s only third party verification and labeling for
non-GMO (genetically modified organism) food and products. We
currently have over 27,000 Non-GMO Project Verified products from
1,500 brands, representing well over $11 Billion in annual sales.
Non-GMO Project Verified is currently one of the fastest growing
labels in the natural food sector, and increasingly is an attribute
sought by conventional brands as well.
Web: http://www.nongmoproject.org
Keys: biotechnology; coalitions; consumer protection; food; genetic
engineering; products; right to know
[Contact data last verified 05 Sep 2015]
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Name: NoNukes.org
Text: A global library of information and links about nuclear power, nuclear
weapons, nuclear waste contamination, and citizen action for
sustainable energy and human survival. Of necessity, we also explore
paths beyond the global culture of violence that gave rise to nuclear
weapons in the first place.
Web: http://www.nonukes.org
Keys: libraries; nuclear energy; nuclear weapons / testing; research
materials; sustainability; waste
[Contact data last verified 06 Sep 2015]
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Name: NorCal Community Resilience Network
Text: Activates and supports community-based and ecological solutions to
climate change, economic instability and social inequity toward a Just
Transition away from fossil fuels. Our work increases capacity for
grassroots projects and programs, builds solidarity across divides of
race, class, sector and region, and broadens support for the Northern
California community resilience movement as a whole.
Together, we are realizing a Just Transition away from an extractive
economy toward holistic, collaborative systems that support human life
in self-sustaining harmony with nature.
Web: http://norcalresilience.org/
http://permacultureconvergence.com/2015/09/16/norcal-community-resilience-network/
Keys: climate change; economics; energy; petroleum; solidarity
[Contact data last verified 27 May 2017]
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Name: NorCal4OurRevolution
Voice: (408) 219-7439 (Kacey Carpenter)
Text: We are friends, neighbors, volunteers that are organizing in our local
community and with OurRevolution to support grassroots progressive
issues, candidates, and initiatives to help address the challenges we
all face. Please join us!
Based in Mountain View, California.
Email: kaceycarpenter@gmail.com
Web: https://www.facebook.com/NorCal4OurRevolution
http://ourrevolution.com
Keys: elections; government; initiatives
[Contact data last verified 09 Mar 2017]
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Name: North American Congress on Latin America (NACLA)
Text: An independent, nonprofit organization founded in 1966 that works
toward a world in which the nations and peoples of Latin America and
the Caribbean are free from oppression and injustice, and enjoy a
relationship with the United States based on mutual respect, free from
economic and political subordination. To that end, our mission is to
provide information and analysis on the region, and on its complex and
changing relationship with the United States, as tools for education
and advocacy - to foster knowledge beyond borders.
Web: http://www.nacla.org/
Keys: analysis; Latin America; magazines; news on-line; policy
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Name: North Atlantic Books (NAB)
Address: 2526 Martin Luther King Jr. Way
Berkeley CA 94704
Voice: (510) 549-4270
Fax: (510) 549-4276
Text: An independent, nonprofit publisher committed to a bold exploration of
the relationships between mind, body, spirit, and nature. Founded in
Vermont, in 1974, NAB aims to nurture a holistic view of the arts,
sciences, humanities, and healing. Over the decades, it has been at
the forefront of publishing a diverse range of original books in
alternative medicine, ecology, and spirituality, with a pioneering
publishing program that encompasses somatics, trauma, raw foods,
craniosacral therapy, shamanism, and literature. NAB was incorporated
as an educational nonprofit in 1980 as the Society for the Study of
Native Arts and Sciences.
Web: http://www.northatlanticbooks.com
Keys: books; ecology; food; spirituality
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Name: North Berkeley Harvest
Voice: (510) 812-3369
Text: Ever thought of donating the unused fruit from your very own fruit
trees? We will gladly pick up or harvest your fruit and donate it to
local food initiatives. Organic food only.
Email: northberkeleyharvest@gmail.com
Web: http://northberkeleyharvest.org
Keys: local food; trees
[Contact data last verified 06 Aug 2016]
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Name: North Oakland Restorative Justice Council
Text: Mission is to put the neighbor back into our neighborHOOD by
empowering our diverse communities to create our own solutions to
neighborhood problems through the use of restorative justice
practices.
The Council uses a multifaceted grassroots approach which includes
policy change, youth advocacy, and community action to heal and repair
relationships.
We work from a model of self-determination to move past restoring the
status-quo by bringing a commitment to address structural violence as
well and inter-personal harm. The council has four robust areas of
work including: monthly community “Peace n’ Justice” walks,
Restorative Justice Block Party Project, Alternative Sentencing for
Youth, and Community Healing Circles.
Web: http://northoaklandrestorativejustice.wordpress.com
Keys: community-building; violence; youth
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Name: Northern California 911 Truth Alliance
Text: Our mission is to seek and disseminate truths about the terrible
crimes committed on September 11, 2001, exposing gaps and deceptions
in the official story. Our goal is to inspire more eyewitness
revelations, truthful media coverage, and a movement that will bring
the responsible criminals to justice and eliminate governmental and
corporate policies that enable criminal elements to commit such acts.
Web: http://sf911truth.org/
Keys: conspiracy; covert operations; media criticism; right to know;
terrorism
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Name: Northern California Community Loan Fund (NCCLF)
Address: 870 Market Street, Suite 677
San Francisco CA 94102
Voice: (415) 392-8215
Text: Promotes economic justice and alleviates poverty by increasing the
financial resilience and sustainability of community-based nonprofits
and enterprises.
Through flexible financial products and sound advice, we create
opportunities to make socially responsible investments that revitalize
Northern California communities.
Email: info@ncclf.org
Web: http://www.ncclf.org
Keys: community-building; consultants; housing; land use; low-income;
sustainability; technical assistance; urban life; urban planning
[Contact data last verified 09 May 2015]
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Name: Northern California Fossil Fuel Pledge of Resistance
Text: Not one more fossil fuel project in Northern California. This is our
pledge. It ends with us, you and me.
Thousands of people are rising up against the corporations and people
who refuse to stop destroying communities of people and the land. Now
is the time to escalate.
To stop them for good we need to confront them directly - at their
offices, at their homes, at their facilities. This will be direct
action for everyone. Those of us who can will put our bodies upon the
gears. Those of us who can’t will resist in other ways. We’ll need
thousands, hundreds of thousands.
Web: http://diablorisingtide.org
Keys: climate change; corporations; direct action; energy; petitions;
petroleum
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Name: Northern California Land Trust (NCLT)
Address: 3120 Shattuck Avenue (near Woolsey)
Berkeley CA 94705
Voice: (510) 548-7878
Text: A Community Land Trust (CLT) that uses community ownership and control
of the land in order to provide affordable homes and community
facilities in perpetuity.
Email: nclt@nclt.org
Web: http://www.nclt.org
Keys: classes / courses; land trusts; development; housing; neighborhoods;
sustainability
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Name: Northern California Recycling Association (NCRA)
Address: POBox 5581
Berkeley CA 94705-5581
Text: An association of recycling businesses, community groups,
municipalities, and individuals committed to promoting, expanding, and
institutionalizing recycling. Founded in 1978, NCRA is a nonprofit
trade organization for recyclers with around 200 members, the majority
of whom are located in Northern California. Boat rockers, we are
active locally, regionally, state-wide and nationally depending on
what needs to be done.
NCRA promotes waste reduction, reuse, salvaging, recycling, and
composting as vital tools for resource and energy conservation, and as
cost-effective, environmentally sound methods of disposing of
discarded materials.
Web: http://www.ncrarecycles.org
Keys: composting; conservation; ecology; recycling; reuse; sustainability
[Contact data last verified 03 Mar 2018]
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Name: Northern California Solar Energy Association (NorCal Solar)
Voice: (510) 545-4925
Text: A nonprofit, member-supported association for ongoing education on the
many aspects of solar energy.
Since 1974, NorCal Solar has inspired tens of thousands of people to
decrease dependence on traditional fuels by promoting:
passive design
building integrated solar
photovoltaics (PV)
solar cooking
solar hot water
other renewable energy strategies
energy efficiency
Email: info@norcalsolar.org
Web: http://www.norcalsolar.org/
Keys: solar energy
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Name: Northern Sun Merchandising
Text: We're a small group of individuals who work for a company that sells
progressive, message-oriented t-shirts, button, stickers, etc. through
a paper catalog and on our website. Northern Sun also does events,
mostly done by Scott, the owner.
Northern Sun donates to local community radio (kfai.org), the Midwest
Renewable Energy Assoc (midwestrenew.org), the Institute for Justice
and Democracy in Haiti (ijdh.org), Women Against Military Madness
(wamm.org), the Resource Center of the Americas (americas.org) and
others.
Web: http://www.northernsun.com
Keys: bumperstickers; buttons; evolution; feminism; humor; mail-order;
posters and flyers; products; spirituality; T-shirts; textiles
[Contact data last verified 03 Mar 2018]
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Name: Northwest Coalition for Alternatives to Pesticides (NCAP)
Text: Works to protect community and environmental health and inspire the
use of ecologically sound solutions to reduce the use of pesticides.
Web: http://www.pesticide.org
Keys: coalitions; pesticides; sustainability
[Contact data last verified 06 Aug 2016]
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Name: Not In Our Town (NIOT)
Address: POBox 70232
Oakland CA 94612
Voice: (510) 268-9675
Text: A movement to stop hate, address bullying, and build safe, inclusive
communities for all. Not In Our Town films, new media, and organizing
tools help local leaders build vibrant, diverse cities and towns,
where everyone can participate.
NIOT.org is home to films and tools to use in your community or
school.
Not In Our Town and Not In Our School are both projects of The Working
Group, an Oakland-based nonprofit founded in 1988.
Email: info@niot.org
Web: https://www.niot.org
Keys: diversity; film / video; hate crimes; public education
[Contact data last verified 12 Nov 2016]
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Name: Not Milk
Text: A public information association that has been formed to let America
know that cow's milk is not nature's perfect food for people.
Web: http://www.notmilk.com/
Keys: coalitions; food; veganism / vegetarianism
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Name: Nuclear Age Peace Foundation
Text: Mission is to educate and advocate for peace and a world free of
nuclear weapons and to empower peace leaders. The Foundation is a
non-partisan, non-profit organization with consultative status to the
United Nations and is comprised of over 75,000 individuals and groups
worldwide who realize the imperative for peace in the Nuclear Age.
Web: http://www.wagingpeace.org
http://www.NuclearFiles.org
Keys: international law; nuclear weapons / testing; peace; research
materials; United Nations
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Name: Nuclear Information and Resource Service (NIRS)
Text: A national non-profit organization devoted to a nuclear-free,
carbon-free world.
We have served as the information and networking hub for people and
organizations concerned about nuclear power, radioactive waste,
radiation, and sustainable energy issues since 1978.
We work internationally to create a sustainable energy future without
nuclear power, and are affiliated with the World Information Service
on Energy (WISE) International.
Web: http://www.nirs.org
Keys: networking; nuclear energy; nuclear radiation; renewable energy;
research materials; sustainability; toxics
[Contact data last verified 26 Nov 2017]
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Name: Nursing Home & Elder Abuse Law Center
Address: 1600 South Main Street Suite 185
Walnut Creek CA 94596
Voice: (877) 270-4700 (toll-free)
(925) 820-4700
Text: We specialize in elder abuse and elder neglect lawsuits against
nursing homes and other long term care facilities throughout
California. Our mission is to obtain justice for our clients when
there has been neglect or abuse by a nursing home. “No Elder Abuse” .
. . It’s Not Just Our Legal Specialty — It’s Our Passion!
Your call is confidential and absolutely free. And, our services are
performed on a contingency fee basis, which means that there is no fee
until we obtain a recovery. Contact us promptly if you suspect that
your loved one or friend has been the victim of elder neglect or
abuse.
Web: http://www.NoElderAbuse.com
Keys: family; law; lawyers; nursing homes; seniors
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Name: NutritionFacts.org
Text: A strictly non-commercial, science-based public service provided by
Dr. Michael Greger, providing free updates on the latest in nutrition
research via bite-sized videos. There are more than a thousand videos
on nearly every aspect of healthy eating, with new videos and articles
uploaded every day. NutritionFacts.org now relies on individual donors
to keep the site alive.
Web: http://nutritionfacts.org
http://www.drgreger.org/
Keys: film / video; health; nutrition; research; science; veganism /
vegetarianism
[Contact data last verified 29 May 2016]
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Name: Oakland Based Urban Gardens (OBUGS)
Address: 1724 Mandela Parkway, Suite 8
Oakland CA 94607
Voice: (510) 465-4660
Text: OBUGS offers numerous programs to students in West and North Oakland.
In our programs students learn about gardening, nutrition, exercise,
healthy eating, science, and they have fun.
OBUGS provides its services primarily through partnerships with
schools in West and North Oakland.
Web: http://www.lifelongmedical.org/Services/oakland-based-urban-gardens.html
https://www.facebook.com/OBUGS
Keys: children; classes / courses; farmers markets; gardening; health;
leadership development; nutrition; youth
[Contact data last verified 14 Mar 2015]
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Name: Oakland Climate Action Coalition (OCAC)
Text: The mission of the OCAC—a cross-sector coalition dedicated to racial
and economic justice—is to engage Oakland residents in creating and
implementing climate solutions that strengthen the environmental,
economic, and social resilience of frontline communities.
The OCAC pursues this mission by:
Developing a comprehensive agenda and program for addressing the
impact of climate change on frontline communities
Bringing together and supporting grassroots campaigns and
initiatives that build community resilience
Amplifying community voices and building grassroots power to shape
public resilience plans and policies
Strengthening community resources through neighborhood-based
climate education, planning, and organizing
Email: info@oaklandclimateaction.org
Web: http://oaklandclimateaction.org/
Keys: climate change; coalitions; community-building; neighborhoods; policy;
racism
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Name: Oakland Food Policy Council (OFPC)
Address: 221 Oak Street, #D
Oakland CA 94607
Voice: (510) 761-5428
Text: OFPC is a council first, created and dedicated to the community to
problem solve, act and celebrate. We analyze and report on the Oakland
food system from production through consumption and waste management.
Perhaps most importantly, we bring together underserved community
members, food sector professionals, elected officials and city staff
to develop food policy. Our work has always been rooted in community
through workshops, listening sessions, and community surveys to ensure
our priorities are aligned with what the community needs and wants.
From the start we have allied with agencies such as HOPE
Collaborative, People’s Grocery, and People United for a Better Life
In Oakland (PUEBLO).
Email: info@oaklandfood.org
Web: http://www.oaklandfood.org
Keys: food; municipal government; policy; sustainability
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Name: Oakland Institute
Address: POBox 18978
Oakland CA 94619
Voice: (510) 474-5251
Text: As a leading policy think tank, the Oakland Institute is bringing
fresh ideas and bold action to the most pressing social, economic, and
environmental issues of our time.
We have a reputation for meticulous research and analysis. Our work is
referenced by policymakers, academics, and the media. Many of our
campaigns have resulted in international policy changes.
Email: info(at)oaklandinstitute.org
Web: http://www.oaklandinstitute.org
Keys: analysis; development; economics; policy; researchers; think tanks
[Contact data last verified 27 Nov 2016]
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Name: Oakland Kids First
Address: 610 16th Street, Suite 310
Oakland CA 94612
Voice: (510) 452-2043
Fax: (510) 452-2075
Text: We create leadership opportunities for young people to transform their
schools so all youth graduate with the skills and motivation to reach
their dreams.
We believe that as a critical mass of young people take responsibility
for themselves, for each other, and for their education – they have
the power to immediately improve student culture and school climate
and organize more effectively with their peers to win long-term
systemic changes. Our innovative Culture Change strategies result in
higher graduation, college attendance and retention rates, more class
participation, the creation of more meaningful youth leadership
opportunities, and a greater sense of connection and responsibility
students have towards their peers and their education.
Email: info@kidsfirstoakland.org
Web: http://www.kidsfirstoakland.org
Keys: community-building; leadership development; multiculturalism; public
education; students; youth
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Name: Oakland Local
Text: An independent media site committed to covering Oakland’s
neighborhoods, people, news, arts, culture and innovation. Our mission
is to create deeper ties to Oakland’s diverse perspectives by telling
stories, shining light on key issues and being a catalyst for
community. We are journalists, storytellers, artists, business owners,
innovators, organizers, advocates and neighbors. Oakland Local and its
team are dedicated to telling stories that should be told – but are
usually not.
Web: http://oaklandlocal.com
Keys: classes / courses; development; diversity; Internet; low-income;
media; news on-line; people of color
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Name: Oakland Privacy
Text: A citizen’s coalition that works regionally to defend the right to
privacy and enhance public transparency and oversight regarding the
use of surveillance techniques and equipment. We were instrumental in
the creation of the first standing municipal citizens’ privacy
advisory commission in the City of Oakland, and we have engaged in
successful privacy enhancing legislative efforts with the Counties of
Alameda and Santa Clara.
Members of Oakland Privacy have sat on panels discussing surveillance
technology use in forums sponsored by the California Department of
Justice, RightsCon, Left Forum, HOPE Conference, Berkeley Law School,
and the Library Freedom Project/Noisebridge, among others.
Web: http://oaklandprivacy.org/
https://www.facebook.com/oakprivacy
Keys: coalitions; legislation; municipal government; privacy; surveillance;
technology
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Name: Oakland Rising
Address: 570 14th Street, Suite 6
Oakland CA 94612
Text: Educates and mobilizes voters in the flatlands to speak up for and
take charge of the issues impacting our lives. We are a multilingual,
multiracial collaborative with deep roots in East and West Oakland's
neighborhoods, proving that everyday residents working together have
the power to change the way our city is run. With longtime Oakland
families and our newest neighbors working shoulder to shoulder, we are
building on Oakland’s incredibly rich history to advance smart,
community-first solutions for a thriving Town.
Email: Info@OaklandRising.org
Web: http://www.oaklandrising.org/
Keys: community-building; municipal government; neighborhoods; people of
color
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Name: Oakland Youth Aspire
Address: DeFremery Recreation Center
1651 Adeline Street
Oakland CA 94607
Voice: (510) 500-4442
Text: A free youth program open every Saturday, 12:30 to 5 PM.
OYA enriches the lives of youth by creating a fun and welcoming environment that
promotes a healthy lifestyle and fosters open communication, empathy,
and the development of interpersonal skills.
Email: info@oaklandyouthaspire.org
Web: http://oaklandyouthaspire.org/
Keys: education; low-income; services; youth
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Name: Occidental Arts and Ecology Center (OAEC)
Address: 15290 Coleman Valley Road
Occidental CA 95465
Voice: (707) 874-1557
Text: An 80-acre research, demonstration, education, advocacy and
community-organizing center in West Sonoma County, California that
develops strategies for regional-scale community resilience and the
restoration of biological and cultural diversity.
OAEC trains and supports “whole communities” — schools, public
agencies, Native American tribes, urban social justice organizations,
watershed groups and others — to design and cultivate resilience to
mounting ecological, social and economic challenges.
Email: oaec@oaec.org
Web: http://www.oaec.org
Keys: art; gardening; intentional communities; organic agriculture;
permaculture; retreats; seeds; Sonoma County; spaces for events;
sustainability
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Name: Occupy Oakland
Text: We are reclaiming public space to use as a forum for the people to
come together, meet one another, listen to each other, and build power
for ourselves. Occupy Oakland is more than just a speak out or a camp
out. The purpose of our gathering is to plan actions, mobilize real
resistance, and defend ourselves from the economic and physical war
that is being waged against our communities.
Web: http://www.occupyoakland.org
Keys: banks; corporate-controlled globalization; direct action; distribution
of wealth; economic justice; solidarity; vigils
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Name: Occupy the Farm
Text: Occupy the Farm envisions a future in which communities make use of
all available land – occupying it when necessary – to create urban
agriculture alternatives and meet local needs in the face of economic
and environmental crisis. Our goal for the Gill Tract in Albany,
California is to establish a productive farm with a Center for Urban
Agriculture and Food Justice. We aim to preserve this rich natural
resource in perpetuity, emphasizing much needed research into
sustainable urban agriculture, open access, and participation by the
larger East Bay community.
Web: http://www.takebackthetract.com
Keys: conservation; direct action; food; land use; local food; organic
agriculture; self-determination; sustainability; urban life
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Name: Occupy the Farm - The Film
Text: A documentary that tells the story of 200 urban farmers who walk onto
a publicly-owned research farm and plant two acres of crops in order
to save the land from becoming a real-estate development.
This direct action set up a vibrant tent village on land destined to
become condos, while their crops blocked the development plans of a
cash-starved public institution, the University of California,
Berkeley.
Their confrontational, yet hopeful tactic raises important questions:
What are the most effective ways to bring healthy food to hungry,
urban neighborhoods? And, who should control research and education at
the world’s most important public university: private interests or the
public good?
Web: http://occupythefarmfilm.com
Keys: agriculture; conservation; film / video; land use; police
accountability; urban life
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Name: Occupy Wall Street
Text: A people-powered movement that began on September 17, 2011 in Liberty
Square in Manhattan’s Financial District, and has spread to over 100
cities in the United States and actions in over 1,500 cities globally.
#ows is fighting back against the corrosive power of major banks and
multinational corporations over the democratic process, and the role
of Wall Street in creating an economic collapse that has caused the
greatest recession in generations. The movement is inspired by popular
uprisings in Egypt and Tunisia, and aims to fight back against the
richest 1% of people that are writing the rules of an unfair global
economy that is foreclosing on our future.
Web: http://occupywallst.org
Keys: banks; corporate-controlled globalization; direct action; distribution
of wealth; economic justice; technical assistance; vigils
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Name: Ocean Voyages Institute (OVI)
Text: A 501(c)3 non-profit organization founded in 1979 by a group of
international sailors, educators, and conservationists with a mission
of teaching maritime arts and sciences and preserving the world’s
oceans. OVI is dedicated to providing sail training opportunities to
youth on a worldwide basis as well as providing access to the ocean
world and educational programs. In 2009, Project Kaisei was launched
to focus on major ocean clean-up and to raise awareness regarding the
global problem of marine debris/ocean trash.
Web: http://www.oceanvoyagesinstitute.org/
Keys: classes / courses; conservation; transportation; water; youth
[Contact data last verified 02 Mar 2016]
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Name: October 22nd Coalition to Stop Police Brutality
Text: Mobilizing every year since 1996 for a National Day of Protest on
October 22nd, bringing together those under the gun and those not
under the gun as a powerful voice to expose the epidemic of police
brutality.
The Coalition also works on the Stolen Lives Project, which documents
cases of killings by law enforcement nationwide. The second edition of
the Stolen Lives book documents over 2000 cases in the 1990s alone.
Volunteers are needed to help with the research and editing of cases
since then. Please contact stolenlivesprojectonline@gmail.com for more
information.
Web: http://www.october22.org/
Keys: coalitions; police accountability; violence
[Contact data last verified 03 Mar 2018]
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Name: OHIAS (Our Health Is At Stake)
Address: 844 B Street (between 2nd and 3rd streets)
San Rafael CA 94901
Voice: (415) 454-9948
Text: Our mission is to educate, assist and empower all to live and work
more harmoniously with nature and one another and avoid further and
certain ruin of our planet’s finite life-sustaining capacity. A
principal objective of our mission is to end waste as we know it today
by putting it and people to work for the benefit of all people,
community and planet. Our first project is to create a community
benefit cooperative in Marin County, California.
Email: info@ohias.org
Web: http://www.ohias.org
Keys: cooperatives; Marin County; sustainability; waste
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Name: Oil Change International
Text: A research, communication, and advocacy organization focused on
exposing the true costs of fossil fuels and facilitating the coming
transition towards clean energy. We focus on the fossil fuel industry
because we view the production and consumption of oil, gas and coal as
sources of global warming, human rights abuses, war, national security
concerns, corporate globalization, and increased inequality. We also
see fossil fuel industry’s interests behind every major barrier to a
clean energy transition.
Web: http://www.priceofoil.org/
Keys: addiction; corporate-controlled globalization; energy; global warming;
human rights; militarism; petroleum; poverty
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Name: Oilwatch
Text: A network of resistance to oil activities in tropical countries.
Oilwatch creation was inspired by the need to develop global strategies for the
communities affected by oil activities; support their resistance
processes because they didn't want to see their territories damaged;
work for sustainability and defend their collective rights.
Within the activities of the network are the exchange of information
on oil activities in each country, the companies' operation practices,
the different resistance movements and the international campaigns
against specific companies.
Oilwatch aims to increase environmental awareness at a global level
unravelling the impacts of the oil activities in tropical forests and
local populations by establishing a link between the destruction of
biodiversity, climate change, violations to human rights and the role
of the Multilateral Banks of Credit.
Web: http://www.oilwatch.org/
Keys: colonialism; corporations; networking; petroleum; self-determination;
solidarity; watchdog groups
[Contact data last verified 02 Mar 2016]
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Name: Older Women's League (OWL-SF)
Address: 870 Market Street #905
San Francisco CA 94102
Voice: (415) 989-4422
Text: Works on political issues of particular concern to women 50 and over.
Social Security, Medicare, climate change and gender economic
inequality are on our agenda now, as are local problems with
pedestrian safety, health care facilities, and transportation.
OWL-SF also provides programs informing attendees about nutrition and
other wellness matters for seniors such as end of life planning and
elder abuse.
We gain energy and friends by working together sharing information,
food, life and laughter.
Email: info@owlsf.org
Web: http://www.owlsf.org
Keys: climate change; healthcare access; nutrition; pedestrian advocacy;
seniors; support groups; transportation; women
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Name: Om Organics
Fax: (415) 358-4131
Text: Mission is to increase the demand for sustainable agriculture and
supply of regionally-produced foods by:
educating the community on the health, environmental and economic
benefits of local, sustainable food production,
helping people appreciate and access sustainably grown products in
the local region, and
helping farms better meet the needs of the community.
Email: info[at]omorganics.org
Web: http://www.omorganics.org
Keys: directories; farmers markets; local food; organic agriculture;
products; sustainability
[Contact data last verified 03 Mar 2018]
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Name: Omni Commons
Address: 4799 Shattuck Avenue (at 48th Street)
Oakland CA 94609
Text: Comprised of several Bay Area collectives with a shared political
vision—one that privileges a more equitable commoning of resources and
meeting of human needs over private interests or corporate profit.
We invite you to join us in establishing a safe, productive place to
pool resources for the collective use and stewardship of the greater
community. A space that fosters an ethic of radical collaboration
across disciplines and between individual collectives, creating a
living model for future radical spaces.
Web: https://omnicommons.org/
Keys: collectives; spaces for events
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Name: On Lok
Address: 1333 Bush Street
San Francisco CA 94109-5611
Voice: (415) 319-6661
Text: On Lok, Inc. is a not-for-profit organization founded in the early
1970s by a group of citizens concerned about the plight of elders and
the lack of long term options in the community. On Lok, Inc. serves
as the administrative arm of a group of five affiliated non-profit
organizations. Its functions include research and development, human
resources, fundraising and management information systems.
30th Street Senior Center provides health and wellness programs,
social interaction, nutritious meals, educational opportunities and
case management services for over 5,000 of San Francisco's seniors.
Web: http://www.onlok.org
Keys: caregiver support; health; healthcare access; insurance; long-term
care; multiculturalism; nursing homes; seniors; transportation
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Name: One Brick
Address: 237 Kearny Street #209
San Francisco CA 94108
Text: A community of volunteers by offering fun opportunities for
individuals to serve local nonprofits. We provide a calendar of
volunteer and social events to help people get involved, have an
impact, and have fun, without the requirements of long term
commitments.
One Brick is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization (Federal ID:
77-0593889) that is a community of volunteers that support other local
nonprofits by creating a friendly and social atmosphere around
volunteering. After each volunteer event our volunteer team invites
everyone to gather at a local restaurant or coffee shop where they can
get to know one another in a relaxed social setting. Additionally we
host regular social events for our volunteers to connect to one
another and to welcome new volunteers to our community.
Email: clive@onebrick.org
Web: http://www.onebrick.org
Keys: calendars; community-building; food; networking; volunteer matching
[Contact data last verified 27 May 2017]
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Name: OneJustice
Address: 433 California Street, Suite 815
San Francisco CA 94104
Voice: (415) 834-0100
Text: Millions of low-income Californians face pressing legal problems
without access to legal help. OneJustice brings life-changing legal
help to those in need by transforming the legal aid system.
We serve as an innovation lab on legal services, applying creative
problem-solving and design approaches to the thorny question of how to
increase legal services for those in need.
Email: development@one-justice.org
Web: https://onejustice.org/
Keys: legal services; low-income
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Name: Online Review of Books and Current Affairs
Text: Reviews independently published and small press books, with news
stories, essays, and feature interviews from a progressive point of
view.
Web: http://onlinereviewofbooks.com/
Keys: books
[Contact data last verified 13 Aug 2016]
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Name: Open Knowledge Foundation (OKF)
Text: Open Knowledge International is a global non-profit organisation
focused on realising open data’s value to society by helping civil
society groups access and use data to take action on social problems.
Open Knowledge International does this in three ways:
1.) We show the value of open data for the work of civil society
organizations;
2.) We provide organisations with the tools and skills to effectively
use open data;
3.) We make government information systems responsive to civil
society.
Web: http://okfn.org/
Keys: open government; open source / open data; research; right to know;
software
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Name: Operation Dignity
Address: 3850 San Pablo Avenue, Suite 102
Emeryville CA 94608
Voice: (800) 686-9036
Text: Assists homeless veterans and their families. We provide emergency,
transitional and permanent housing for homeless veterans in Alameda
County, California. We also offer comprehensive support services,
nutritious meals and a strong peer community. Our goal is to help
veterans rediscover hope and provide the tools needed to live a
self-sufficient and stable life.
Email: info@operationdignity.org
Web: http://operationdignity.org/
Keys: homelessness; housing; self-sufficiency; services; veterans
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Name: OpportunityKnocks.org (OK)
Text: A national online job board, HR resource, and career development
destination focused exclusively on the nonprofit community. We are
committed to leading and supporting efforts that help further
nonprofit careers and to promoting a robust workforce that enables
organizations to fulfill their missions.
Web: http://www.opportunityknocks.org
Keys: directories; employment
[Contact data last verified 06 Sep 2015]
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Name: Organic Consumers Association (OCA)
Text: An online and grassroots non-profit 501(c)3 public interest
organization campaigning for health, justice, and sustainability. The
OCA deals with crucial issues of food safety, industrial agriculture,
genetic engineering, children's health, corporate accountability, Fair
Trade, environmental sustainability and other key topics. We are the
only organization in the US focused exclusively on promoting the views
and interests of the nation's estimated 50 million organic and
socially responsible consumers.
The OCA represents over two million online and on the ground network
members, including several thousand businesses in the natural foods
and organic marketplace. Our US and international policy board is
broadly representative of the organic, family farm, environmental, and
public interest community.
Web: http://www.organicconsumers.org
Keys: blogs; consumer protection; fair trade; food; genetic engineering;
health; news on-line; organic agriculture; public relations; research
materials; sustainability; technical assistance; toxics
[Contact data last verified 27 May 2017]
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Name: Organic Farming Research Foundation (OFRF)
Address: POBox 440
Santa Cruz CA 95061
Text: At OFRF, we build the vital infrastructure that supports the success
of organic farmers. Our four areas of focus are: POLICY, where we grow
champions in Congress and federal agencies; EDUCATION, where we work
to integrate organic farming programs into all agricultural
universities; GRANTMAKING that expands the adoption of organic farming
and practices while addressing urgent issues faced by many organic
farmers in America; and building COMMUNITY to cultivate a broader and
deeper connection among organic supporters.
Web: http://www.ofrf.org
Keys: organic agriculture; research; research materials; Santa Cruz County
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Name: Organic Seed Alliance
Text: Advances the ethical development and stewardship of seed. We believe
seed is part of our common cultural heritage – a living, natural
resource that demands careful management to meet food needs now and
into the future. We accomplish our mission through research,
education, and advocacy.
The seed industry has quickly consolidated. Intellectual property
practices (e.g., patents on seed) stand out as the leading cause,
where much of our commercial seed is now owned and managed in the
hands of a few transnational firms. This control has stifled
innovation in plant breeding, and creates barriers to improving the
availability, quality, and integrity of organic seed.
Web: http://www.seedalliance.org
Keys: organic agriculture; seeds
[Contact data last verified 27 Nov 2016]
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Name: OrganicAthlete
Text: A membership community for vegetarian and vegan runners, cyclists, and
triathletes.
Uunites people in a global effort to create a better world through
sport. Our mission is to promote health and ecological stewardship
among athletes of all ages and abilities by sharing information,
building community and inspiring through athletic example.
Web: http://www.organicathlete.org
Keys: health; public education; sports; veganism / vegetarianism
[Contact data last verified 22 Nov 2015]
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Name: Our City
Address: 1104 Polk Street #225
San Francisco CA 94109
Voice: (415) 756-8844
Text: Our City is working to shift power in San Francisco out of the hands
of wealthy elites and big business interests, and into the hands of
the people.
We support human and civil rights; economic, racial and social
justice; open, well-run, and responsive government; LGBT rights; a
clean environment; affordable housing; affordable and accessible
health care; well funded public education; sensible transportation
policies; fair treatment for workers; effective and humane homeless
solutions; empowering neighborhoods; and electing decent, intelligent
representatives who will work hard for the people they represent.
Email: info@ourcitysf.org
Web: http://our-city.org
Keys: municipal government; neighborhoods; policy
[Contact data last verified 02 Sep 2014]
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Name: our developing world (odw)
Address: 13004 Paseo Presada
Saratoga CA 95070-4125
Voice: (408) 379-4431
Text: Dedicated to bringing the realities of the “third world” and the
richness of diverse cultures to North Americans, our developing
world(odw) provides teacher training and materials, and programs for
community groups and classes, reality tours, a tri–annual newsletter —
our developing world(odw)à¤–s voices and a lending resource library
free to local teachers.
Email: odw@magiclink.net
Web: http://blank.hypersurf.com/~odw/
Keys: classes / courses; developing world; diversity; educational
curriculum; libraries; multiculturalism; newsletters; travel
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Name: Our Family Coalition
Address: 1385 Mission Street, Suite 340
San Francisco CA 94103
Voice: (415) 981-1960
Fax: (415) 981-1962
Text: Advances equity for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer
(LGBTQ) families with children through support, education, and
advocacy. We seek to create an inclusive and just world where all
LGBTQ families with children have visibility and opportunities to
thrive as valued participants in our schools, institutions, and
communities. We cultivate community-based leadership among LGBTQ
families and strong partnerships with our allies in California, to
advance social justice and make our nation a more respectful and
inclusive place for all.
Email: info@ourfamily.org
Web: http://www.ourfamily.org
Keys: bisexuals; children; community-building; educational curriculum;
family; Gays; Lesbians; sexual minorities; support groups;
transgenders; youth
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Name: Our Kids, Our Choice (OKOC)
Text: A non-partisan, grassroots, web-based action platform established in
early 2015. Spontaneously formed, diverse and supported by thousands
of eager and civic-minded members, we have come together to defend the
civil liberties of all Californians by voicing our opposition to
medical mandates, including California Senate Bill 277 (Pan/Allen). We
believe it is in our best interest as a society to maintain freedom of
choice for what we put into our children’s bodies and our own. We
oppose efforts to take away our parental freedom to protect our
children and make decisions in our children’s best interest.
Web: http://www.ourkidsourchoice.org
Keys: children; civil liberties; health; legislation
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Name: Our World
Text: The Our World web magazine shares expert views, research and
commentary on contemporary affairs of relevance to the mandate of the
United Nations. This award-winning web magazine, brought to you by the
United Nations University (UNU), exchanges these insights through
video briefs, articles, debates, photo essays and public events.
Our World is produced by the UNU Office of Communications team in
Tokyo. Since the first article, the magazine has been dedicated to
bilingual publishing in English and Japanese.
Web: http://ourworld.unu.edu/en/
Keys: editorial comment; magazines; news on-line; research; United Nations
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Name: Out4Immigration
Text: We are an all-volunteer grassroots group that works to raise awareness
about the discrimination same-sex binational couples face under
current U.S. laws when trying to keep our families together. Same-sex
binational couples are LGBT American citizens or permanent residents
who are married to, in a civil union with or registered as a domestic
partner with someone from another country.
Email: info@out4immigration.org
Web: http://www.out4immigration.org/
Keys: AIDS / HIV; discrimination; immigrants; law; sexual minorities
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Name: OutRight Action International
Text: OutRight seeks to advance human rights and opportunities for LGBTIQ
people around the world by developing critical partnerships at global,
regional, and national levels to build capacity, document violations,
advocate for inclusion and equality, and hold leaders accountable for
protecting the rights of all LGBTIQ people. Today, we partner with
local LGBTIQ organizations across four regions and maintain a
cross-regional LGBTIQ initiative at the UN in New York. As an
international LGBTIQ organization with a long history of productive
and trusting relationships with grassroots LGBTIQ communities
worldwide, we serve as a bridge between local communities and
high-impact external levers of power.
Formerly the International Gay & Lesbian Human Rights Commission.
Web: https://www.outrightinternational.org/
Keys: coalitions; discrimination; human rights; sexual minorities
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Name: Oyate
Address: 330 East Thomson Avenue
Sonoma CA 95476
Voice: (707) 996-6700
Text: A Native organization working to see that our lives and histories are
portrayed with honesty and integrity, and that all people know that
our stories belong to us. For Indian children growing up in the 21st
century, it is as important as ever for them to know who they are and
learn about the histories that they come from. For all children, it is
time to know and acknowledge the truths of history. Only then will
they come to have the understanding and respect for each other that
now, more than ever, will be necessary for life to continue.
Email: orders[at]oyate[dot]org
Web: http://www.oyate.org
Keys: consultants; educational curriculum; history; libraries; Native
Americans
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Name: Pachamama Alliance
Address: Presidio Bldg 1009
POBox 29191
San Francisco CA 94129-9191
Voice: (415) 561-4522
Text: A global community that offers people the chance to learn, connect,
engage, travel and cherish life for the purpose of creating a
sustainable future that works for all.
With roots deep in the Amazon rainforest, our programs integrate
indigenous wisdom with modern knowledge to support personal, and
collective, transformation that is the catalyst to bringing forth an
environmentally sustainable, spiritually fulfilling, socially just
human presence on this planet.
Web: http://www.pachamama.org
Keys: conservation; indigenous people; rainforests; sustainability
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Name: Pacific Coast Farmers' Market Association (PCFMA)
Address: 5060 Commercial Circle, Suite A
Concord CA 94520
Voice: (925) 825-9090
(800) 949-FARM
Text: Our mission is to empower California farmers to be enormously
successful in Bay Area communities. You'll see us pursuing our mission
every time you shop at one of our farmers' markets where local farms
gather to sell their delicious products.
PCFMA creates community-based food experiences throughout the San
Francisco Bay Area that support California family farms and a healthy
local food system.
Web: http://www.pcfma.com
Keys: farmers markets
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Name: Pacific Environment
Address: 473 Pine Street, Third Floor
San Francisco CA 94104
Voice: (415) 399-8850
Text: Oceans are dying. Wildlife is rapidly vanishing. Indigenous cultures
are disappearing. The climate is going haywire.
It’s easy to feel overwhelmed by the enormity of the challenges we
face.
But we believe there are solutions to these environmental and social
problems—even the big ones.
We nurture the courage and creativity of local leaders to find new
ways to protect all of us from climate breakdown, air pollution, water
loss, and plastic waste. And we advocate strong protections for people
and the planet at the highest international levels of government.
Email: info@pacificenvironment.org
Web: http://www.pacificenvironment.org/
Keys: Asia; conservation; democracy; global community; policy
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Name: Pacific Institute
Address: 654 13th Street, Preservation Park
Oakland CA 94612
Voice: (510) 251-1600
Fax: (510) 251-2203
Text: A global water think tank that provides science-based thought
leadership with active outreach to influence local, national, and
international efforts in developing sustainable water policies. Since
1987 it has worked with Fortune 500 companies to disenfranchised
communities to create and advance sustainable water policies and
deliver meaningful results.
Email: info(at)pacinst.org
Web: http://www.pacinst.org
http://www.worldwater.org
Keys: climate change; conservation; development; environmental justice;
research materials; sustainability; water
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Name: Pacifica Gardens
Address: POBox 883
Pacifica CA 94044
Text: A 30,000 sq. ft. urban agricultural project located on an abandoned
soccer field at Linda Mar School, 830 Rosita Road, Pacifica, CA.
Projects underway: biointensive food gardens, permaculture food
forest, native plants, herbs, fruit tree mini-orchard, large-scale
composting, elementary school field trips, youth community service
program, food donation program.
Programs in development: classes for cooking with organic produce.
Located at 830 Rosita Road (near Adobe Drive) in Pacifica.
Email: general@pacifica-gardens.org
Web: http://www.pacifica-gardens.org
Keys: education; local food; organic agriculture; San Mateo County
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Name: Paper Tiger TV West / Deep Dish Satelite Network (PTTV)
Text: Paper Tiger has been creating fun, funky, hard-hitting, investigative,
compelling and truly alternative media since 1981! The programs
produced at PTTV have inspired media-savvy community productions and
activism around the world. Our archive includes shows that provide
critical analysis of media, educate about the communications industry
and highlight issues that are absent from mainstream information
sources. Through the distribution of our short documentary programs,
media literacy/video production workshops, community screenings and
grassroots advocacy, PTTV works to expose and challenge the corporate
control of media.
Web: http://www.papertiger.org/
Keys: film / video; networking; television
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Name: Parents, Families, and Friends of Lesbians and Gays (PFLAG San
Francisco)
Address: POBox 640223
San Francisco CA 94164
Voice: (415) 921-8850 (HELPline)
Text: Pomotes the health and well being of gay, lesbian, bisexual and
transgender persons, their families and friends, through support to
cope with an adverse society, education to enlighten an ill-informed
public, and advocacy to end discrimination and to secure equal civil
rights. PFLAG SF provides opportunity for dialogue about sexual
orientation and gender identity and act to create a society that is
healthy and respectful of human diversity.
Email: pflagsf@aol.com
Web: http://pflagsf.org
http://www.pflag.org
Keys: family; sexual minorities
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Name: Parents, Families, and Friends of Lesbians and Gays, East Bay (PFLAG)
Address: POBox 21195
Oakland CA 94620-1195
Voice: (510) 562-7692
Text: The nation's largest family and ally organization. Uniting people who
are lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) with
families, friends, and allies, PFLAG is committed to advancing
equality and full societal affirmation of LGBTQ people through its
threefold mission of support, education, and advocacy.
Email: support@pflag-eastbay.org
Web: http://www.pflag-eastbay.org
http://community.pflag.org/Page.aspx?&pid=224&srcid=229&chid=39
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Name: Parents, Families, and Friends of Lesbians and Gays, San
Jose/Peninsula (P-FLAG)
Address: POBox 2718
Sunnyvale CA 94087
Voice: (408) 270-8182
Text: Promotes the health and well-being of gay, lesbian, bisexual and
transgendered persons, their families and friends through: support, to
cope with an adverse society; education, to enlighten an ill-informed
public; and advocacy, to end discrimination and to secure equal civil
rights. Parents, Families and Friends of Lesbians and Gays provides
opportunity for dialogue about sexual orientation and gender identity,
and acts to create a society that is healthy and respectful of human
diversity.
Email: pflag-info@pflagsanjose.org
Web: http://www.pflagsanjose.org/
Keys: family; health; Santa Clara County; sexual minorities
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Name: Participatory Budgeting Project (PBP)
Address: 1212 Broadway, Fifth Floor (near Broadway & 12th)
Oakland CA 94612
Text: A a non-profit organization that empowers people to decide together
how to spend public money, primarily in the US and Canada. We create
and support participatory budgeting processes that deepen democracy,
build stronger communities, and make public budgets more equitable and
effective.
Email: info@participatorybudgeting.org
Web: http://www.participatorybudgeting.org
Keys: community-building; democracy; government; policy
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Name: Partners for Livable Communities
Text: A national nonprofit organization working to restore and renew the
communities we work and live in. Partners has over thirty years of
experience in solving community problems by providing information,
leadership and guidance that help communities help themselves. We
welcome the opportunity to bring our experience to your community.
Mission is to improve the quality of life and economic and social
wellbeing of low- and moderate-income individuals and communities.
Promotes livable communities through technical assistance, leadership
training, workshops, charrettes, research and publications.
Web: http://livable.org/
Keys: classes / courses; community-building; leadership development;
low-income; research; technical assistance
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Name: Partnership for Civil Justice Fund (PCJF)
Text: A public interest legal organization that brings a unique and cutting
edge approach dedicated to the defense of human and civil rights
secured by law, the protection of free speech and dissent, and the
elimination of prejudice and discrimination. Among the PCJF cases are
constitutional law, civil rights, women's rights, economic justice
matters and Freedom of Information Act cases.
Web: http://www.justiceonline.org
Keys: civil rights; discrimination; economic justice; free speech; freedom
of information; human rights; legal defense; news on-line; spying;
surveillance; women
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Name: Partnership for Sustainable Communities (PSC)
Address: 914 Mission Avenue, Suite. 4A
San Rafael CA 94901
Voice: (415) 453-2100
Text: A national, nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization based in San Rafael,
California.
PSC is dedicated to helping make American cities and towns more
socially, economically and environmentally sustainable. We share the
concern of environmental groups about the negative impact of
greenhouse gas emissions. However, PSC is unique in that it focuses
on the whole picture of land use planning, affordable housing,
community development, building energy use, and transportation.
PSC supports land use planning that recognizes the importance of
infill, mixed-use and transit-oriented development; better linkage
between transportation and the development of homes and job centers,
as well as transportation alternatives to private cars; and
development of mixed-income and affordable housing near jobs and
transit, as well as preservation of existing affordable housing.
Web: http://www.p4sc.org
Keys: development; housing; land use; municipal government; policy;
sustainability; urban life; urban sprawl
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Name: Party for Socialism and Liberation (San Francisco office) (PSL)
Address: 2969 Mission Street
San Francisco CA 94110
Voice: (415) 821-6171
Text: Believes that the only solution to the deepening crisis of capitalism
is the socialist transformation of society. Driven by an insatiable
appetite for ever greater profits regardless of social cost,
capitalism is on a collision course with the people of the world and
the planet itself. Imperialist war; deepening unemployment and
poverty; deteriorating health care, housing and education; racism;
discrimination and violence based on gender and sexual orientation;
environmental destruction—all are inevitable products of the
capitalist system itself.
Email: sf@pslweb.org
Web: http://www.pslweb.org
Keys: class; magazines; political parties; socialism
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Name: Pathways to Peace (PTP)
Address: POBox 1057
Larkspur CA 94977
Voice: (415) 461-0500
Text: International Peacebuilding, Educational and Consulting organization
dedicated to making Peace a practical reality through both local and
global projects. Incorporated in 1983, PTP is an official Peace
Messenger of the United Nations and has Consultative Status with the
United Nations Economic and Social Council and works with the U.N.
Centre for Human Rights, U.N. Centre for Human Settlements, UNESCO,
UNICEF and other agencies.
Pathways To Peace works locally and globally to promote Peacebuilding,
Education and to collaborate with other organizations in initiatives
that help further our Culture of Peace Initiative (CPI).
Email: info@pathwaystopeace.org
Web: http://pathwaystopeace.org
Keys: global community; Marin County; peace; United Nations
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Name: Pavement to Parks
Text: A collaborative effort between the San Francisco Planning Department,
the Department of Public Works, and the Municipal Transportation
Agency.
San Francisco's streets and public rights-of-way make up 25% of the
city's land area; more space than all the public parks combined. Many
of our streets are excessively wide and contain large underutilized
areas, especially at intersections. San Francisco's "Pavement to
Parks" program seeks to test the possibilities of these underused
areas of land by quickly and inexpensively converting them into new
pedestrian spaces.
Web: http://pavementtoparks.sfplanning.org/
Keys: land use; municipal government; parks; pedestrian advocacy;
transportation
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Name: Peace Action of San Mateo County
Address: POBox 425
San Mateo CA 94401
Text: A grassroots San Mateo County peace & justice group. A local
affiliate of Peace Action West, which is a member of Peace Action, the
largest peace & disarmament organization in the country.
Email: smpa@sanmateopeaceaction.org
Web: http://www.sanmateopeaceaction.org
Keys: justice; militarism; peace; San Mateo County
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Name: Peace Action West
Address: 2201 Broadway, Suite 321
Oakland CA 94612
Voice: (800) 949-9020
Text: Wworks for smarter American approaches to global problems. If we want
to address problems like war, poverty, global warming, terrorism --
the US needs to work together, cooperatively, with other nations. It
also means overcoming the partisan politics and divisive rhetoric that
often drown out alternatives to war.
Web: http://peaceactionwest.org
Keys: human rights; lobbying; militarism; nuclear weapons / testing; peace;
policy
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Name: Peace Alliance, The
Text: Committed to growing a movement of a million strong for peace.
Together, we will create a critical mass necessary for peacebuilding
to be our societal norm. We can make it happen!
We are a grassroots educational and advocacy organization focused on
transforming how individuals, communities, and nations respond to
conflict and violence. The prevention and intervention solutions we
promote have proven effective in saving lives and dollars while
enhancing cooperation skills and increasing social resilience.
Web: http://www.thepeacealliance.org
Keys: coalitions; networking; peace; policy
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Name: Peace and Freedom Party, Alameda County
Address: POBox 24764
Oakland CA 94623
Voice: (510) 465-9414
Text: Committed to socialism, democracy, ecology, feminism and racial
equality. We represent the working class, those without capital in a
capitalist society. We organize toward a world where cooperation
replaces competition, a world where all people are well fed, clothed
and housed; where all women and men have equal status; where all
individuals may freely endeavor to fulfill their own talents and
desires; a world of freedom and peace where every community retains
its cultural integrity and lives with all others in harmony.
Web: http://www.peaceandfreedom.org
Keys: feminism; political parties; socialism
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Name: Peace and Justice Center of Nevada County (PJCNC)
Text: We envision a world of justice, peace, equality and freedom. This
vision includes community where differences are respected, conflicts
are addressed peacefully, supportive structures are developed. Where
people are empowered and live in harmony with the earth, nurtured by
diverse traditions that foster compassion and reconciliation.
We are dedicated to principles of non-violent resolution of conflict.
Members may not represent PJCNC by spoken or written word that
advocates any violent action.
We are not affiliated with any political party or religion. While
PJCNC is a diverse community of many spiritual, religious, and
political beliefs, individuals may not represent PJCNC as being a
political or religious entity.
Web: http://www.ncpeace.org/
Keys: direct action; nonviolence; peace centers
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Name: Peace and Justice Center of Sonoma County
Address: 467 Sebastopol Avenue
Santa Rosa CA 95401
Voice: (707) 575-8902
Text: The Center envisions a world of peace, justice and freedom. It is a
revolutionary and empowering vision of a democratic community where
differences are respected, conflicts are addressed nonviolently,
oppressive structures are dismantled, and people live in harmony with
the earth, nurtured by diverse traditions that foster compassion,
solidarity and reconciliation. Therefore, we commit ourselves to
replace violence, war, racism and economic injustice through active
nonviolence as a transforming way of life and as a means of radical
change – personally, locally, nationally, and globally.
Web: http://www.peaceandjusticesonomaco.org
Keys: book sellers; conscientious objectors; film / video; newsletters;
nonviolence; peace centers; Sonoma County
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Name: Peace Brigades International (PBI)
Text: An international NGO that has been promoting nonviolence and
protecting human rights since 1981.
Our work is based on the principles of non-partisanship and
non-interference in the internal affairs of the organisations we
accompany.
We believe that lasting transformation of conflicts cannot be imposed
from outside, but must be based on the capacity and desires of local
people. Therefore we do not take part in the work of the organisations
we accompany. Rather our role is to open political space and provide
moral support for local activists to carry out their work without fear
of repression.
Web: http://www.peacebrigades.org
Keys: Central America; conflict resolution; human rights; Indonesia; Native
Americans; nonviolence; travel; violence
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Name: Peace Resource Project
Address: POBox 1122
Arcata CA 95518-1122
Voice: (888) 822-7075
Text: Sells fundraising and promotional items including bumperstickers,
posters, t-shirts, and buttons.
Our hope is for a world of peace, social justice and ecological
harmony. We strive to encourage and build faith in our own abilities
to create the world we want to see. We enjoy sharing the informative
and educational content in our resources, particularly our extensive
offering of DVDs. We always have been committed to empowering
grassroots groups by providing these educational, fundraising and
visibility resources as reasonably priced as we can.
Web: http://www.peaceproject.com/
Keys: bumperstickers; buttons; fundraising; peace; posters and flyers;
products; T-shirts
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Name: Pedal Express
Voice: (510) 843-7339 (843-PEDX)
Text: A worker-owned bicycle courier service. We strive to provide the
greenest, fastest, most affordable option for local delivery
throughout the East Bay Area.
We at Pedal Express enjoy the challenges of the courier industry.
Whether it’s a rush job to UC Berkeley, delivering lunch for an entire
office in Emeryville, or hauling 150 pounds of publications to
Downtown Oakland - we got you covered. All of our deliveries are done
by bicycle. You can rest easy, knowing that your time-sensitive
deliveries are being taken care of in environmentally sustainable
manner. We love the East Bay communities that we serve.
Email: PedalExpress@PedalExpress.com
Web: http://www.pedalexpress.com
Keys: couriers; cycling; delivery
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Name: Peninsula Family Service
Address: 24 Second Avenue
San Mateo CA 94401
Voice: (650) 403-4300
Fax: (650) 403-4303
Text: Strengthens the community by providing children, families, and older
adults the support and tools to realize their full potential and lead
healthy, stable lives.
Email: info@peninsulafamilyservice.org
Web: http://www.peninsulafamilyservice.org
Keys: children; education; family; San Mateo County; self-sufficiency;
services
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Name: Peninsula Open Space Trust (POST)
Address: 222 High Street
Palo Alto CA 94301
Voice: (650) 854-7696
Fax: (650) 854-7703
Text: Protects and cares for open space, farms and parkland in and around
Silicon Valley.
POST is shaping a vibrant ecosystem for Silicon Valley – a network of
protected lands that provide scenic beauty, clean air and water,
locally grown food, and a place for people and wildlife to thrive.
These lands will be preserved forever so that present and future
generations can live in harmony with nature, in a careful balance of
urban and rural landscapes that make our region extraordinary.
Web: http://www.openspacetrust.org
Keys: diversity; land trusts; open space; San Mateo County; Santa Clara
County
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Name: Peninsula Peace and Justice Center (PPJC)
Address: 305 North California Avenue #3
Palo Alto CA 94301
Voice: (650) 326-8837
Text: Committed to . . .
Changing U.S. foreign and domestic policies to ones that meet human
needs and human rights.
A demilitarized society and economy.
True justice for all, at home and abroad, regardless of
economic status or beliefs.
An end to racism, sexism and all forms of discrimination.
Giving ordinary people the information and opportunity they
need to be involved and effective in the efforts to change our country
and our world.
Email: ppjc[at]peaceandjustice.org
Web: https://www.peaceandjustice.org/
https://www.facebook.com/penin.pjc/
https://twitter.com/Peace_Justice_C
Keys: calendars; coalitions; corporate-controlled globalization; death
penalty; Iraq; Mumia Abu-Jamal; nuclear weapons / testing; peace
centers; Santa Clara County; television
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Name: People for the American Way (PFAW)
Text: Dedicated to making the promise of America real for every American:
Equality. Freedom of speech. Freedom of religion. The right to seek
justice in a court of law. The right to cast a vote that counts. The
American Way.
Our vision is a vibrantly diverse democratic society in which everyone
is treated equally under the law, given the freedom and opportunity to
pursue their dreams, and encouraged to participate in our nation’s
civic and political life. Our America respects diversity, nurtures
creativity and combats hatred and bigotry.
Web: http://www.pfaw.org
Keys: censorship; civil liberties; free speech; religious right
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Name: People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA)
Text: PETA focuses its attention on the four areas in which the largest
numbers of animals suffer the most intensely for the longest periods
of time: in the food industry, in the clothing trade, in laboratories,
and in the entertainment industry. We also work on a variety of other
issues, including the cruel killing of rodents, birds, and other
animals who are often considered “pests” as well as cruelty to
domesticated animals.
PETA works through public education, cruelty investigations, research,
animal rescue, legislation, special events, celebrity involvement, and
protest campaigns.
Web: http://www.peta.org
Keys: animal liberation; Contra Costa County
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Name: People Organized to Demand Environmental and Economic Rights (PODER)
Address: Centro del Pueblo
474 Valencia Street, Suite 125 (near 16th Street)
San Francisco CA 94103
Voice: (415) 431-4210
Text: A grassroots organization that works to create people-powered
solutions to the profound environmental and economic inequities facing
low-income Latino immigrants and other communities of color in San
Francisco. Since 1991, with participation from residents in the
Mission, Excelsior and other southeast San Francisco neighborhoods, we
have won important advances in public health, the availability of
affordable housing, access to parks and open space and accountable
government.
We hope to bring about a meaningful multiracial democracy and create
new models for economic resiliency and environmental sustainability in
a city facing growing inequality. We believe that solutions to local
problems depend on the active participation of a wide range of
community members in the decision making process.
Email: info(at)podersf.org
Web: http://www.podersf.org
Keys: community-building; environmental justice; land use; Latinas /
Latinos; low-income; multiculturalism; people of color; toxics
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Name: People Organized to Win Employment Rights (POWER)
Address: 2145 Keith Street
San Francisco CA 94124
Voice: (415) 864-8372
Text: A membership organization made up of low-income African American and
Latino workers and tenants in San Francisco. Through community and
electoral organizing, leadership development and movement building,
POWER brings a human face to important policy debates, transforms
individual lives and brings about broad-based policy change at the
city, state and national levels.
Web: http://www.peopleorganized.org/
Keys: corporate-controlled globalization; economic justice; employment;
housing; immigrants; low-income; minimum wage; people of color;
welfare; women
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Name: People United for a Better Life in Oakland (PUEBLO)
Address: 3528 Foothill Boulevard
Oakland CA 94601
Voice: (510) 535-2525
Text: A multi-issue nonprofit community organization whose mission is to
address the most pressing needs of marginalized communities in Oakland
by creating healthy, economically self-sufficient and peaceful
neighborhoods where local development and employment can start, grow
and become an integral part of the community through leadership
development and inter-generational grassroots organizing.
Email: pueblo@peopleunited.org
Web: http://www.peopleunited.org
Keys: environmental justice; food security; police accountability; policy;
public education; public health; youth
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Name: People's Bark News
Text: A newsletter that's posted online and emailed every Sunday, containing
activist messages that include Bay Area events in addition to Los
Angeles and San Diego events. Send notices to John Vance at the email
address shown here. Put SUBSCRIBE PBNB in the subject line to
subscribe by email. There is also an RSS feed at the last URL shown
here.
Email: jvance@riseup.net
Web: http://www.angelfire.com/biz2/thefirstamendment/pbnbtemplate
http://www.angelfire.com/biz2/thefirstamendment
https://lists.riseup.net/www/rss/latest_arc/pbnberkeley?count=20&for=10
Keys: calendars; email mailing lists; newsletters
[Contact data last verified 06 Sep 2015]
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Name: People's Grocery
Voice: (510) 652-7607
Text: Mission is to improve the health and local economy of West Oakland by
offering holistic programs which encourage a diversified, local and
sustainable community while facilitating conversations about racial
equity and its impact on the community.
We believe:
Access to healthy food, information, shelter, joy, and love are
basic human rights.
Community Engagement is critical to changing the food system.
Movement toward increased love, light, and joy will happen through
creating access to healthy food and information about the consumption
of healthy foods.
Self-determination is a key element to community sovereignty and
must be centered around historical residents
Building relationships across difference increases the health and
wealth of the community.
Healing is a form of liberation.
Email: info@peoplesgrocery.org
Web: http://www.peoplesgrocery.org
Keys: agriculture; community-building; economic justice; food; health; human
rights; local economy; local food; policy; self-determination;
sustainability; urban life
[Contact data last verified 17 May 2017]
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Name: People's Park
Text: Founded in 1969, People’s Park in Berkeley, California is a gathering
place for Community, History, Free Speech, Social Justice, Civil
Rights, Gardens, Music, Education, Recreation, Ecology, Sports, and
more.
Peoples Park is located in the City of Berkeley, a few blocks South of
the University of California campus. The Park is bounded on the East
by Bowditch St., on the South by Dwight Way, on the North by Haste St.
and on the West, it’s a short half block from Telegraph Avenue.
Web: http://www.peoplespark.org/wp/
Keys: free speech; music; parks
[Contact data last verified 29 Apr 2018]
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Name: Peoples Video Network
Text: We are a group of media activists who video and audio podcast, produce
and edit dvd's and videos about issues the corporate media will not
touch. In our archives are hundreds of dvd's and videos documenting
the struggle. We have sent correspondents to the Lacondon Jungle,
Russia, Cuba, Korea, Puerto Rico, South Africa, and Iraq. Our goal is
to break the information blockade of big business media.
Web: http://www.peoplesvideo.org/
Keys: Cuba; film / video; free speech; Iraq; mail-order; media criticism;
Puerto Rico; Russia; South Africa; television
[Contact data last verified 06 Sep 2015]
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Name: Permaculture Action Network
Text: Empowers individuals to take action and create the world we want to
see. We connect educators, creators, and organizers with broad and
diverse audiences to build a regenerative and just world. From
organizing Permaculture Action Days and events to building educational
spaces and hosting courses, Permaculture Action Network is committed
to pushing community and environmental sustainability to the center of
society’s cultural narrative.
Web: http://www.permacultureaction.org/
Keys: classes / courses; networking; permaculture; sustainability
[Contact data last verified 08 Apr 2016]
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Name: Pesticide Action Network North America (PANNA)
Address: 2029 University Avenue, Suite 200
Berkeley CA 94704
Voice: (510) 788-9020
Text: We work to create a just, thriving food system. For too long,
pesticide and biotech corporations have dictated how we grow food,
placing the health and economic burdens of pesticide use on farmers,
farmworkers and rural communities. PAN works with those on the
frontlines to tackle the pesticide problem — and reclaim the future of
food and farming.
PAN North America is one of five regional centers worldwide. We link
local and international consumer, labor, health, environment and
agriculture groups into an international citizens’ action network.
Together, we challenge the global proliferation of pesticides, defend
basic rights to health and environmental quality, and work to ensure
the transition to a just and viable food system.
Web: http://www.panna.org/
http://pesticideinfo.org
Keys: agriculture; biotechnology; consumer protection; development;
environmental justice; libraries; networking; pesticides; public
health; research materials; self-determination
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Name: Petaluma Bounty
Address: 1500 Petaluma Blvd
South Petaluma CA 94952
Text: Working to create a sustainable Petaluma food system with healthy
fresh food for everyone!
Formed in summer 2006 with initial seed funding from the Hub of
Petaluma Foundation, Petaluma Bounty is a community-based nonprofit
that is helping folks to grow their own healthy food, redistributing
surplus food, and providing affordable fresh food to low-income
families and seniors.
Email: suzi@petalumabounty.org
Web: http://www.petalumabounty.org
Keys: agriculture; food; gardening; local economy; local food; low-income;
self-sufficiency; sustainability; urban life
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Name: Petaluma Community Access (PCA)
Address: 205 Keller Street, Suite 102
Petaluma CA 94952
Voice: (707) 773-3190
Text: A non-profit public access television & radio station in Petaluma.
Through community programming, member production services and
partnerships with local businesses and non-profits, PCA promotes
diversity and free speech throughout southern Sonoma County.
Our mission is to promote freedom of expression, provide access to
communication tools and to foster the use of audio and visual media
and technology.
PCA is currently building KPCA FM radio 103.3, a low-power radio
station programmed by members of the Petaluma community.
Email: contact@pca.tv
Web: http://pca.tv
Keys: community-building; do-it-yourself; media; Sonoma County; technical
assistance; television
[Contact data last verified 13 Aug 2016]
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Name: Petaluma Progressives
Address: POBox 445
Petaluma CA 94953
Voice: (707) 763-8134
Text: A local, grassroots, political education and action group. In addition
to hosting The Progressive Festival each year, we have held public
protests and vigils, lobbied elected officials, done work in our local
schools, endorsed and worked on progressive candidates' campaigns,
hosted one night a month at the Friday Night Film series at the
Foundry Wharf, etc. etc. Our monthly meetings are held the first
Tuesday of each month, at 7 pm, downstairs in: Copperfields Books,
140 Kentucky Street, Petaluma. All are welcome.
Email: info@progressivefestival.org
Web: http://www.progressivefestival.org
Keys: demonstrations; festivals; film / video; Sonoma County
[Contact data last verified 06 Sep 2015]
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Name: Pets Are Wonderful Support (PAWS)
Address: 3170 23rd Street
San Francisco CA 94110
Voice: (415) 979-9550
Fax: (415) 979-9269
Text: Believes that the healing impact of the human-animal bond is one of
the best supports available for medically vulnerable individuals, and
mounting evidence indicates that this bond can yield valuable health
outcomes. For many people, having a companion animal is part of living
a happy and fulfilling life. For some individuals, especially those
who are chronically ill, frail, and isolated by disease or age, having
a companion animal can be central to their health and well-being.
Animal companionship becomes even more important when our human
contacts diminish because of aging or illness.
A program of the Shanti Project.
Email: infopaws@shanti.org
Web: http://www.shanti.org/pages/paws_resources.html
http://www.pawssf.org/
Keys: AIDS / HIV; disabilities; low-income; seniors; support groups
[Contact data last verified 03 Mar 2018]
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Name: Phase2Careers
Text: A 501(c)(3) organization whose mission is to prepare and empower the
over 40 worker to find career opportunities in the new economy.
Since 2010, Phase2Careers has assisted the "Over 40" worker find new
career opportunities through job search workshops and panels, staffing
and employment roundtables, mixers and job fairs, small business
workshops, and technology training, as well as a Job Board.
Web: http://www.phase2careers.org
Keys: classes / courses; employment
[Contact data last verified 05 Dec 2014]
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Name: Phat Beets Produce
Address: 5709 Market Street
Oakland CA 94608
Voice: (510) 250-7957
Text: Aims to create a healthier, more equitable food system in North
Oakland through providing affordable access to fresh produce,
facilitating youth leadership in health and nutrition education, and
connecting small farmers to urban communities via the creation of farm
stands, farmers' markets, and urban youth market gardens.
Email: info@phatbeetsproduce.org
Web: phatbeetsproduce.org
Keys: agriculture; farmers markets; leadership development; local food;
nutrition; urban life; youth
[Contact data last verified 30 Jul 2014]
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Name: Phoenix Data Center
Address: POBox 1713
Los Gatos CA 95031
Fax: (408) 353-6058
Text: A not-for-profit organization that maintains an index of all free and
low income services offered throughout Santa Clara County. Goal is to
connect those in need with those who can help.
Email: updates@phoenixdatacenter.org
Web: http://www.phoenixdatacenter.org/
Keys: AIDS / HIV; directories; employment; food; healthcare access;
homelessness; housing; legal services; low-income; mental health;
prevention; Santa Clara County; services; shelters
[Contact data last verified 09 May 2015]
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Name: Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine (PCRM)
Text: Leading a revolution in medicine—putting a new focus on health and
compassion. The Physicians Committee combines the clout and expertise
of more than 12,000 physicians with the dedicated actions of more than
175,000 members across the United States and around the world.
Our efforts are dramatically changing the way doctors treat chronic
diseases such as diabetes, heart disease, obesity, and cancer. By
putting prevention over pills, doctors are empowering their patients
to take control of their own health.
And we are also building a new way of viewing research. Since 1985,
the Physicians Committee has been working tirelessly for alternatives
to the use of animals in medical education and research and advocating
for more effective scientific methods.
Web: http://www.pcrm.org
Keys: animal liberation; health; healthcare access; veganism / vegetarianism
[Contact data last verified 03 Mar 2018]
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Name: Physicians for Social Responsibility (PSR)
Text: Works to create a healthy, just and peaceful world for both the
present and future generations. PSR advocates on the issues you care
about by addressing the dangers that threaten communities, using our
medical and public health expertise to:
Prevent nuclear war and proliferation;
Reverse our trajectory towards climate change;
Protect the public and our environment from toxic chemicals;
Eliminate the use of nuclear power.
Web: http://www.psr.org
Keys: conservation; libraries; militarism; nuclear weapons / testing; public
health; speakers; violence
[Contact data last verified 09 May 2015]
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Name: Pilgrim Press, The
Text: Publishes a wide variety of books and resources that help individuals
explore their own spirituality within a progressive Christian faith.
Just as the Pilgrims set sail to the New World in the early 1600s and
created The Pilgrim Press, The Press is committed to being a bold
witness for new religious thought.
Web: http://www.pilgrimpress.com/
Keys: book publishers; policy; products; racism; religion; science; sexual
minorities; technology; trade
[Contact data last verified 06 Sep 2015]
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Name: PLACE for Sustainable Living
Address: 1121 64th Street
Oakland CA 94608
Text: We are a public-serving, experiential learning center to showcase and
foster sustainable living practices, urban homesteading, community
resiliency & preparedness, social justice and artistic expression. Our
goal is to incubate a local sustainability hub to allow people to see
solutions in practice; to gain access to the knowledge and resources
to empower them to take action in their own lives, neighborhoods,
towns, cities and bio-regions. We hope to grow this green-center model
into communities across the world in partnership with community
centers, schools, park & recreation facilities and other local
organizations.
Web: http://aplaceforsustainableliving.org/
Keys: art; bioregionalism; gardening; sustainability; urban life
[Contact data last verified 29 May 2016]
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Name: Planet Drum Foundation
Address: POBox 31251
San Francisco CA 94131
Voice: (415) 285-6556
Fax: (415) 285-6563
Text: Mission is to promote awareness of sustainable strategies for human
inhabitation of the earth based on the bioregions where people live.
We seek to enhance the intimate connection with life-places by
spreading the ideas and activities of "living in place" through
publications, workshops, formal curricula, and hands-on demonstration
projects. This work is motivated by our vision of a truly sustainable
world in which humans are harmonious with and respectful of the
natural environment.
Email: mail@planetdrum.org
Web: http://www.planetdrum.org
Keys: bioregionalism; directories; endangered species / habitat; local
economy; speakers; sustainability; urban life; watersheds
[Contact data last verified 18 Sep 2015]
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Name: PlaneTree Health Information Center
Address: 10800 Torre Avenue
Cupertino CA 95014
Voice: (408) 446-1677 x3350
Text: Offers in-depth health and medical information services,
individualized to the specific needs of each patron. Our services are
now provided at the PlaneTree Health Information Center, located on
the second floor of the Cupertino Library, in partnership with the
Santa Clara County Library District. PlaneTree services continue to be
offered free of charge and open to the public. PlaneTree librarians
and expert volunteers will help you find relevant and reliable health
and medical information, so that you can make informed decisions about
your health and healthy choices about your life.
Web: http://www.planetree-sccl.org/
Keys: film / video; health; libraries; low-income; research materials
[Contact data last verified 09 May 2015]
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Name: PlanitJewish
Address: 1720 South Amphlett Blvd #110
San Mateo CA 94402
Voice: (650) 286-4400
Text: A 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization committed to advancing
participation, membership and volunteerism in your local Jewish
Community. We maintain a community calendar so you can search for
events that match your interests and RSVP on the spot. You can save
events to your personalized PlanitJewish calendar, which can be synced
up to your Outlook calendar or PDA. Want to be reminded of an upcoming
event? PlanitJewish can do that too. Our interactive volunteer area
and in-depth organization information allows you to discover your
Jewish community, meet new people, and get involved.
Email: info@PlanitJewish.com
Web: http://www.planitjewish.com
Keys: calendars; community-building; Jews; volunteer matching
[Contact data last verified 18 Sep 2015]
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Name: Planned Parenthood Shasta Pacific (PPSP)
Address: 2185 Pacheco Street
Concord CA 94520
Voice: (925) 676-0505
Fax: (925) 676-2814
Text: Offers friendly and compassionate health care services to over 100,000
people a year at 25 health care sites across 20 counties in Northern
California, from San Francisco to Del Norte County. We provide expert,
personalized care to women, men, and young people of all genders and
identities.
Email: info@ppnorcal.org
Web: http://www.plannedparenthood.org/shasta-pacific/
Keys: family; healthcare access; reproductive rights; San Mateo County
[Contact data last verified 22 Nov 2015]
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Name: Planning and Conservation League (PCL)
Text: The lobbying arm of the environmental movement. PCL partners with
hundreds of California environmental organizations, to provide an
effective voice in Sacramento for sound planning and responsible
environmental policy at the state level. These partner organizations
rely on PCL's presence at the Capitol to not only shape environmental
policy, but also keep them informed about issues of concern. Every
year, hundreds of laws are passed that affect our quality of life and
PCL has and continues to work to keep our cities livable and our
wilderness pristine, among other things.
Web: http://www.pcl.org/
Keys: coalitions; conservation; legislation; lobbying; wildlife
[Contact data last verified 18 Sep 2015]
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Name: Planting Justice
Address: 3443 San Pablo Avenue
Oakland CA 94608
Voice: (510) 290-4049
Text: Since 2009 Planting Justice has built over 400 edible permaculture
gardens in the San Francisco Bay Area, worked with five high-schools
to develop food justice curriculum and created 20 green jobs for men
transitioning from prison in the food justice movement.
We work to address the structural inequalities that have become
embedded in our industrialized food system:
- the systemic exploitation of food system workers (especially
undocumented farm and kitchen workers)
- the lack of access to fresh, nutritious food in low-income
communities of color
- our culture's over-reliance on packaged, processed food that is
killing our bodies and our environment
Email: tennessee@plantingjustice.org
Web: http://plantingjustice.org
Keys: agriculture; classes / courses; economic justice; employment; local
food; sustainability; urban life
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Name: Ploughshares Fund
Address: 1808 Wedemeyer Street, Suite 200
The Presidio of San Francisco
San Francisco CA 94129
Voice: (415) 668-2244
Fax: (415) 668-2214
Text: For over 35 years Ploughshares Fund has supported the most effective
people and organizations in the world to reduce and eventually
eliminate the dangers posed by nuclear weapons.
Our grantees, partners and community have made significant progress in
cutting risks and reducing nuclear weapons stockpiles since their peak
in the 1980s.
Together, we can finish the job. Together, we can put an end to one of
the greatest threats to our planet—and to future generations.
Web: http://www.ploughshares.org/
Keys: fundraising; militarism; nuclear weapons / testing; peace
[Contact data last verified 19 Oct 2017]
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Name: Point of View Productions (Karil Daniels)
Voice: (415) 821-0435
Fax: (415) 821-0434
Text: Karil Daniels is a film and video writer / producer / director /
cinematographer / editor. Working through her production company,
Point of View Productions, her films and tapes have won over 30
festival awards.
She has a special interest in programs about democracy and freedom,
health and wellness, ecology and environment, education, sustainable
business and social responsibility, peace, anti-nuclear issues,
international topics, social justice, the arts, and subjects of
importance to women.
Email: karil@karildaniels.com
Web: http://www.karildaniels.com/
http://www.waterbirthinfo.com
http://www.VoicesOfDissent.us
http://twitter.com/karildaniels
Keys: art; business; democracy; ecology; festivals; film / video; health;
peace; sustainability; women
[Contact data last verified 13 Aug 2016]
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Name: Polaris Institute
Text: Designed to enable citizen or peoples’ movements to re-skill and
re-tool themselves for the struggle to bring about democratic social
change in an age of corporate-driven globalization. Essentially, the
Institute works with various social movements and community-based
groups to develop methods, strategies and tactics for effectively
challenging public policy making on vital economic, environmental and
social justice issues with a particular focus on unmasking the
corporate power that lies behind governments today.
Web: http://www.polarisinstitute.org
Keys: biotechnology; corporate-controlled globalization; corporations;
directories; news on-line; policy; research materials; water
[Contact data last verified 03 Mar 2018]
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Name: Political Asylum/Immigration Representation Project (PAIR)
Text: PAIR has been a nationally recognized pro bono model that works to
secure safety and freedom for asylum-seekers who have fled from
persecution throughout the world and to promote the rights of
immigrants unjustly detained. PAIR provides hope and a new beginning
to asylum-seekers, torture survivors and immigration detainees.
Web: http://pairproject.org/
Keys: immigrants; torture
[Contact data last verified 12 Nov 2016]
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Name: Political Research Associates (PRA)
Text: Since 1981, Political Research Associates (PRA) has produced
investigative research and analysis on the U.S. Right to support
social justice advocates and defend human rights.
A social justice think tank, PRA holds a unique position in studying
the entire spectrum of the U.S. Right–secular, religious, economic,
and xenophobic–including its influence both domestically and overseas.
Our thirty-five years of expertise helps journalists, advocates,
educators, scholars, and the public to understand and challenge the
right-wing.
Web: http://www.politicalresearch.org
Keys: analysis; democracy; researchers; right-wingers; think tanks
[Contact data last verified 03 Dec 2017]
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Name: Pollinate Farm & Garden
Address: 2727 Fruitvale Avenue
Oakland CA 94601
Voice: (510) 686-3493
Text: A nursery and urban homestead emporium located in the heart of
Oakland. We specialize in urban farming, edible landscapes and food
forests. We help you get the most out of your space and inspire you to
DIY Food.
We believe that everyone deserves fresh, local and healthy food, and
supply the essentials for seed-to-table organic farming and gardening,
food preserving, small scale livestock raising and beekeeping. For
cooks and food crafters, we have an amazing kitchen department filled
with provisions, tools and accessories. And of course, we have a
wonderful selection of gifts, books and magazines. We offer a speaker
series of authors and experts, as well as hands-on workshops and
cooking classes in our community meeting/learning space. We teach the
"hows" and "whys" of DIY Food.
Web: http://pollinatefarm.com
http://www.yelp.com/biz/pollinate-farm-and-garden-oakland
Keys: do-it-yourself; food; gardening; local food; organic agriculture;
seeds; urban life
[Contact data last verified 03 Feb 2017]
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Name: Pollination Project, The
Address: 1569 Solano Avenue, #643
Berkeley CA 94707
Text: Seeks to unleash GOODNESS and expand COMPASSION all over the world. We
make daily seed grants to inspiring social change-makers who are
committed to a world that works for all.
Our daily grant making began on January 1, 2013 and since then, we
have funded a different project every single day. We also make larger
impact grants of up to $5000 to projects that have demonstrated impact
and success.
Through a global network of grantees and community partners, we
identify extraordinary grassroots leaders who would not likely qualify
for funding from other foundations or institutions. Once they have the
backing of The Pollination Project, grantees often leverage their
grant into more funding, building their team, media attention and
more.
Web: https://thepollinationproject.org/
Keys: grants / financial aid; seeds
[Contact data last verified 06 Apr 2017]
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Name: POOR News Network
Address: 8032 MacArthur Blvd
Oakland CA 94605
Voice: (415) 863-6306 (message only)
Text: POOR Magazine is a poor people led/indigenous people led, grassroots
non-profit,arts organization dedicated to providing revolutionary
media access, art, education and advocacy to silenced youth, adults
and elders in poverty across the globe.
All of POOR's programs are focused on providing non-colonizing,
community-based and community-led media, art and education with the
goals of creating access for silenced voices, preserving and
degentrifying rooted communities of color and re-framing the debate on
poverty, landlessness, indigenous resistance, disability and race
locally and globally.
Email: deeandtiny@poormagazine.org
Web: http://www.poormagazine.org
Keys: art; classes / courses; framing; homelessness; journalism; low-income;
magazines; media; news on-line; radio; web site design; youth
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Name: Population Connection
Text: Works to ensure that every woman around the world who wants to delay
or end childbearing has access to the health services and
contraceptive supplies she needs in order to do so.
Web: http://www.populationconnection.org/
Keys: policy; population control; sustainability
[Contact data last verified 03 Dec 2017]
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Name: Population Services International (PSI)
Text: A global health organization dedicated to improving the health of
people in the developing world by focusing on serious challenges like
a lack of family planning, HIV and AIDS, barriers to maternal health,
and the greatest threats to children under five, including malaria,
diarrhea, pneumonia and malnutrition.
A hallmark of PSI is a commitment to the principle that health
services and products are most effective when they are accompanied by
robust communications and distribution efforts that help ensure wide
acceptance and proper use.
PSI works in partnership with local governments, ministries of health
and local organizations to create health solutions that are built to
last.
Web: http://www.psi.org/
Keys: AIDS / HIV; children; healthcare access; humanitarian aid; low-income;
population control; services
[Contact data last verified 29 May 2016]
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Name: Positive Resource Center
Address: 785 Market Street, 10th Floor
San Francisco CA 94103
Voice: (415) 777-0333
Fax: (415) 777-1770
Text: A community-based 501(c)(3) non-profit whose mission is to assist
people affected by or at risk of HIV/AIDS through culturally
appropriate counseling, education, training and advocacy. As a result,
our clients can make more informed choices that maximize available
benefits and employment opportunities.
The only place for people living with HIV/AIDS or mental health
disabilities to get comprehensive benefits counseling and employment
services in San Francisco.
Web: http://www.positiveresource.org
Keys: AIDS / HIV; benefits; counseling; employment; services
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Name: Post Carbon Institute
Text: Mission is to lead the transition to a more resilient, equitable, and
sustainable world by providing individuals and communities with the
resources needed to understand and respond to the interrelated
ecological, economic, energy, and equity crises of the 21st century.
Provides individuals and communities with the resources needed to
understand and respond to the interrelated ecological, economic,
energy, and equity crises of the 21st century. We help build
resilience to withstand these crises, and support social and cultural
change to make society more ready to take decisive and appropriate
action.
Web: http://www.postcarbon.org/
Keys: classes / courses; education; energy; limits to economic growth; peak
oil; petroleum; research
[Contact data last verified 03 Mar 2018]
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Name: PowerPac.org
Address: 44 Montgomery Street, Suite 2310
San Francisco CA 94104
Voice: (415) 442-0940
Fax: (415) 442-0933
Text: Committed to long-term, real progressive change.
We work year-round, and during each election cycle, to direct financial and
human resources to strategic local, state and national campaigns.
Our mission is to increase voter participation among underrepresented
communities.
Email: info@powerpac.org
Web: http://www.powerpac.org
Keys: analysis; elections; finance; initiatives; legislation; policy;
Political Action Committees (PACs)
[Contact data last verified 27 Nov 2016]
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Name: Practicing Freedom
Text: Supports communities to generate and enact their own solutions while
strengthening their relationships through Popular Education
practices.
We amplify the liberatory, participatory and humanizing potential of
programs, schools, campaigns, organizations and businesses working to
create systemic social and cultural change. We believe that if we want
our institutions, and political and economic systems to be
participatory and democratic, then each step of the process to
transform them should be participatory and democratic as well.
Web: http://www.practicingfreedom.org
Keys: community-building; creativity; democracy; education; facilitation;
interconnectedness; theatre
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Name: Precita Eyes Mural Arts & Visitors Center
Address: 2981 24th Street (at Harrison)
San Francisco CA 94110
Voice: (415) 285-2287
Text: As an inner city, community-based mural arts organization, Precita
Eyes Muralists Association seeks to enrich and beautify urban
environments and educate communities locally and internationally about
the process and the history of public community mural art. We maintain
a deep commitment to collaborating with the various communities we
serve. Our dedication to collaboration guarantees that creative work
produced is accessible, both physically and conceptually, to the
people whose lives it impacts. We intend to bring art into the daily
lives of people through a process which enables them to reflect their
particular concerns, joys and triumphs.
Email: info@precitaeyes.org
Web: http://www.precitaeyes.org
Keys: classes / courses; community-building; murals; neighborhoods
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Name: Prescott-Joseph Center for Community Enhancement, Inc.
Address: 920 Peralta Street
Oakland CA 94607
Voice: (510) 208-5651
Fax: (510) 208-2801
Text: Serves as a friendly, helping hand for the community of West Oakland.
A non-profit corporation organized in 1995 in the Prescott district of West
Oakland. It evolved out of the conceptual scheme for the adaptive
re-use of the former Saint Joseph's Convent (St. Patrick Convent) as a
center for community services, education, culture and development in
West Oakland.
Email: info@prescottjoseph.org
Web: http://www.prescottjoseph.org
Keys: classes / courses; mentoring; services; software; writing; youth
[Contact data last verified 18 Sep 2015]
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Name: Presidio Graduate School (PGS)
Address: 1202 Ralston Avenue, Suite 300
The Presidio of San Francisco
San Francisco CA 94129
Voice: (415) 561-6555
Fax: (415) 561-6483
Text: Among the world’s first and leading sustainability graduate schools,
PGS was founded on the simple premise that we inhabit a world
increasingly defined by our shared desti